Subtraction in Year 4

Subtraction in Year 4 Our latest pages on subtraction are designed to help children use their knowledge to subtract two 4-digit numbers. Using place value grids, there are no exchanges to be made when doing this; the key idea is to concentrate on the correct place value for each digit....

Year 2 Length

Year 2 Length A key objective in the Year 2 Measurement programme of study is to: ‘Compare and order lengths.’ Children should be able to order more than two lengths, from shortest to longest, at first using only the same unit of measurement. This will also help with ordering numbers...

Year 1 Division Games

Year 1 Division Games The work done on division in Year 1 is mainly of a practical nature, making equal groups from a given number of objects and sharing using 1:1 correspondence. Later pictorial representations can be used and this is where our new Year 1 division activities are really...

International Day of Mathematics

International Day of Mathematics UNESCO has designated March 14th to be The International Day of Mathematics when students and the general public will be invited to take part in mathematical activities on the theme of: Mathematics is Everywhere. URBrainy has been providing resources which illustrate that mathematics is everywhere for...

KS2 Ratio in the SATs

KS2 Ratio in the SATs New this week are four sets of pages on ratio and proportion, based on questions found on last year’s reasoning papers. This is a subject that can be easily missed but the test writers like it and several questions crop up every year, so it...

Year 5 Reasoning and problem solving

Year 5 Reasoning and problem solving Expectations are high for children in Year 5 and this is especially true when it comes to reasoning and problem solving. Solving multi-step problems can be very tricky but we have just published two great sets of worksheets to help with this. The first...