Tweet Children in Year 4 will be investigating a whole range of problems involving number and being able to recognise and explain patterns. Children should then be able to extend the ideas presented and use these to make predictions and ask ‘What if….?’ questions. Problems may appear in many forms such as the following: Find numbers [...] . . . → Read More: Year 4: What sign?

Tweet One of the keys to success with maths is being able to calculate mentally. There should be no need to resort to written methods or to a calculator to add two 2-digit numbers; mental calculations should rule! Having said that, these are not easy, and a number of skills need to have been learned to [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the week: adding 2-digit numbers mentally

Tweet Here is another page for practising the short division method, this time just using the eight times table. The key to this method is, of course, a good knowledge of the 8 times table, as without this the solution can take an awfully long time and lots of errors may occur. The table has been [...] . . . → Read More: Division: 3-digit numbers divided by 8