Tweet The calculator can prove to be a great tool for those who are fascinated by numbers and these pages give us just one example of this. It uses simple division sums to produce interesting recurring decimals. For example: 1/9 is 0.111111 2/9 is 0.22222 3/9 is 0.33333 and so on. It also asks children to use their knowledge of equivalent fractions [...] . . . → Read More: Year 6 maths worksheet: Calculator patterns and recurring decimals

Tweet A number of you math-fiend friends have noted that coverage of decimals with the basic operations was a little incomplete, so to address that I’ve added or expanded a few areas. You can find the new (and a few old) worksheets at the links below… Addition Worksheets with Decimals Subtraction Worksheets with Decimals Multiplication Worksheets with Decimals Division Worksheets [...] . . . → Read More: Decimal Worksheets Posted

Tweet Sometimes it’s useful to have a page that tests how quickly children can respond to a set of questions – and here is one. This Year 4 maths worksheet looks at addition and subtraction of whole tens. There are 30 questions and children who have a good grasp of adding single digits should be able [...] . . . → Read More: Year 4 worksheet: Rapid addition and subtraction

Tweet Coming up tomorrow is another of those fascinating dates that mathematicians love. At the sixth second of the seventh minute of the eighth hour of October 2010 the date will be: 06.07.08.09.10 or it can be written as 6.7.8.9.10. Children also find these dates fun so why not ask when the next interesting pattern can be [...] . . . → Read More: Mathematical dates

Tweet This is the second in our mini series on practising mental addition. This page looks at pairs of numbers that make 60. There are 8 snappy questions followed by a task to find all the pairs of odd numbers that make 60. Not too long as there are only 15 pairs of odd numbers! If children [...] . . . → Read More: Year 4: Revise mental addition

Tweet Many Year 6 children are not as confident as they should be with multiplication and with decimals. This week we are publishing a straightforward maths worksheet which looks at multiplying 2-digit numbers by 1 digit, with decimals. This should be tackled in exactly the same way as multiplication without decimals, but don’t forget to put in [...] . . . → Read More: Year 6 maths worksheet: Revise multiplication

Tweet Doubling 2-digit numbers can be quite easy or fairly tricky; it all depends on the numbers. For a number such as 23, doubling is easy as the tens and units can be doubled in your head in either order and can be easily remembered. However, doubling 37 leads to more complex mathematical thinking as at least [...] . . . → Read More: Year 3 maths worksheet: Double 2-digit numbers

Tweet Introduction The metric system is based on multiples of 10. This makes it very easy to use with decimal numbers. One of the principle advantages of this is that it makes doing math with metric measurements much easier, which is why metric measurements are much pretty much the standard in any sort of science or math [...] . . . → Read More: An Overview of the Metric System