Well, the new school year has kicked off here and I’m leading a first and fifth grader this year through the math jungle. For my younger daughter, we’re starting back near the beginning of the material on the site. This’ll be a good opportunity for me to tune up and improve some of the worksheets [...] . . . → Read More: 100 Problem Timed Tests Posted

This is the follow up maths worksheet to the earlier explanation on how to estimate on a number line up to 10 000. Most of the work on number lines in year 6 involve using decimals so this is a good chance to make sure that large whole numbers are understood. All answers are approximate but [...] . . . → Read More: Year 6 maths worksheet: Estimating on a number line

Well, the new school year has kicked off here and I’m leading a first and fifth grader this year through the math jungle. For my younger daughter, we’re starting back near the beginning of the material on the site. This’ll be a good opportunity for me to tune up and improve some of the worksheets [...] . . . → Read More: 100 Problem Timed Tests Added

A new collection of worksheets on reducing fractions has been posted. These sheets are at several levels of difficulty and include simple reductions and reducing improper fractions to mixed numbers in the lowest form. Answer keys show the reductions in the same style as the other fraction worksheets. I’m working on additional worksheets dealing with converting fractions to [...] . . . → Read More: Worksheets for Reducing Fractions

This is the second in our revision sheets for dividing decimals by 10 or 100, ‘in your head’. A good understanding of place value is needed for this as there is little to do apart from move the numbers to the right. One place to the right divides by 10. Two places to the right [...] . . . → Read More: Maths worksheet: Divide decimals by 10 or 100

This is the second page which looks in detail at a 1-100 number square and is excellent practice at understanding place value as well as counting. A small section of the whole number square, just 4 by 3 is taken and most of the numbers removed. The skill is in replacing the missing [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: Year 2 maths worksheet

By Year 3 children should be familiar with the names of 5 and 6 sided shapes: pentagons and hexagons. Usually these shapes are seen in a regular form and children do not always recognise them when they are irregular. This mini investigation will help with this. A geoboard is a great help. Schools already have [...] . . . → Read More: Year 3 maths worksheet: Make 5 sided shapes