Free Christmas activities

Free Christmas activities The end of the Autumn Term is certainly hectic, with teachers and children heavily engaged in Christmas activities, plays, carol concerts etc, all of which have to be fitted in around the normal curriculum. A high priority for us when writing maths worksheets is to create bright...

Year 4: on-screen activities: counting in multiples of 6, 7 and 9

Year 4: on-screen activities: counting in multiples of 6, 7 and 9 New on-screen activities to help children count quickly and accurately in multiples of 6, 7 and 9 have just been published. These might seem easy but when using numbers in the thousands and crossing the hundreds boundary they...

Year 2 Money

Year 2 Money New resources this week include matching equal amounts of coins and activities using notes and are now available in the Year 2 Money section. This is a really important, practical and relevant part of the curriculum and it is a pity that some of the maths mastery...

Year 1 Addition: bar models

Year 1 Addition There is no doubt that number lines and bar modelling are now used in many schools to help children understand calculating, especially those who are using a maths mastery approach. We have just added some great new resources using both number lines and bar models to supplement...

KS2 Maths SATs Booster

KS2 Maths SATs Booster: calculating in the reasoning papers Whilst there is a separate Calculations Paper there are also many calculation questions in the other two Reasoning Papers, making calculating by far the most important part of the tests. It is just that the questions are designed differently and not...

Multiplication and understanding factors in Year 5

Multiplication and understanding factors in Year 5 Arrays and multiplication are useful tools to help children understand what factors are. We have just published two sets of worksheets on identifying factors in the context of multiplication and division. The first uses children’s knowledge of tables to find factors: for example,...