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Christmas present buying worksheet

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:34:26 +0000

Here we have an open-ended page to keep up the Christmas theme for this week. More Christmas themed worksheets can be found at; http://pages.urbrainy.com/happy-christmas-2011 There are four items with prices; a set of beads for £2, a box of chocolates for £3, a bag for £5 and a bottle of perfume for £7. The task [...]

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Resource of the week: Christmas adding puzzle

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:34:22 +0000

Looking at my stats I can see that everyone is very busy with Christmas assemblies, shows, shopping, eating, drinking etc so I will shortly be joining you all and have a few days off. I will leave you with a little puzzle in case you have nothing better to do! Put the numbers 1, 2, [...]

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Year 4 maths worksheet: Santa’s reindeer

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:34:14 +0000

More Christmas worksheets are available at:http://pages.urbrainy.com/happy-christmas-2011 We continue with our seasonal worksheets with some reindeer questions, probably best suited to children in Year 4 upwards. Everyone knows about Rudolf, the red-nosed reindeer, but far fewer people know that there are eight others to go with him! Santa’s reindeer pull the sleigh for Santa and [...]

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Year 1 maths worksheet: Christmas halving

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:34:11 +0000

From time to time it’s nice to have a topical maths worksheet and here is one for year 1 at Christmas time. The ability to double and halve numbers quickly is a great strategy to have at your fingertips as it can help later with all sorts of calculations. Here we have a year 1 [...]

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Calculator ban in Primary Schools

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:34:08 +0000

Primary school pupils could face a ban on using calculators according to Nick Gibb, the Schools Minister. Following a government study he has suggested that pupils should only be able to use calculators once they have mastered basic maths, including learning ‘times tables’. This announcement comes as a result of a government study which found [...]

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Top children’s reading books to help with maths

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:34:05 +0000

Over a period of time I have collected together a great selection of books suitable for young children to help them with counting and number skills. All these books are a great read in themselves, but they also all have a mathematical slant. They are rather hidden away within the Top Maths Books section and [...]

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KS2 Maths SAT question 25 from 2010 Paper A

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:34:02 +0000

Sarah had a bag of cherries…..Question 25 is one of those questions where you have to read it all carefully before starting and then proceed from the end, working backwards. Suggested method: The key to answering this question is to start at the end and work backwards. Amy got 2 cherries. Liam gave half of [...]

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Year 2 investigation: 3 dice totals

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:33:58 +0000

Dice are a great resource to help with addition and logical thinking. This investigation looks at how many different ways a total of 12 can be made with three dice. In fact this could be looked at in two different ways. If the dice were all different colours then there would be a great many [...]

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Complete multiplication number sentences (3)

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:33:55 +0000

This is the third worksheet in the mini series looking at using different strategies to work out missing numbers in multiplication number sentences. Again, it is worth pointing out that people who say they, ‘can’t do maths’, probably don’t have a wide range of mental strategies to tackle questions. All the questions on this worksheet [...]

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KS2 Maths SAT questions 23 and 24 from 2010 Paper A

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:33:51 +0000

To answer question 23 you need to find the missing number to make the calculation correct. 11 x ?? = 1111 The answer is 101. One mark for this question. Suggested method: To make this easy a good understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division is needed. Simply divide 1111 by 11, which is [...]

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