Tweet Probability does cause some confusion with children, partly because it can be expressed in several ways and because it is very hard to find events which are absolutely certain to happen, or not happen. One way of displaying the probability of an event is as a percentage: for example, there is a 50% chance of [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: probability as a fraction

Tweet Here we have a simple page which looks at adding three multiples of ten to make a variety of whole hundreds. It is quite open ended as there are many possible answers and the page could be repeated several times or used as the starting point for a mini investigation. The page could be answerred [...] . . . → Read More: Year 3 maths worksheet: adding three numbers

Tweet Having a browse round the site I noticed that there is not very much in the Useful Resources section so I thought it was about time I added some! A number grid (often called a number square) from 1-100 is a very useful resource, especially when used for counting and looking for patterns. An obvious [...] . . . → Read More: Useful resources: 1 to 100 number grid

Tweet In Year 2 children will be calculating using the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division symbols. Their understanding of addition will develop as they begin to add a 1-digit number to a 2-digit number as well as beginning to answer written addition questions. (This is not the same as using written methods.) Developing efficient mental methods [...] . . . → Read More: Calculating in Year 2

Tweet Some of the problems in the More Subtraction on the Number Line worksheets were outside the range of the number line shown to work out each problem. Got those fixed this morning, just end time for some end-of-the year subtraction review… get the math worksheets here . . . → Read More: Quick Update to Subtraction on the Number Line Problems

Tweet This is a short division page which concentrates just on dividing 3-digit numbers by 6. Short division, as its name suggests is a shortened version of the long division method where subtractions and remainders are done mentally. The key to answering these is to have a set speech for the process. For example: 6)457 ‘How [...] . . . → Read More: Divide 3-digit numbers by 6

Tweet Now we are coming on to more familiar territory for most people when we think of graphs: the bar chart or bar graph. Here the vertical bars represent the number of people going out on a boat. Each bar is completely separate from the others. It is important that children get used to naming the [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: Bar charts

Tweet A great deal is expected of children by the end of Year 2 and we have some great maths worksheets to help them on their way. By the end of the year children are expected to read and write 2-digit numbers in figures and words, describe and extend number sequences and recognise odd and even [...] . . . → Read More: Counting and Number in year 2

Tweet Today I have published a page of multiplication questions which can be used to reinforce knowledge of the 3 times table as well as practising the short method of multiplication. it is called the short method because it does not involve writing to answer to each part of the question on a new line and [...] . . . → Read More: Short multiplication (multiplying by 3)

Tweet This week we are highlighting a Year 2 worksheet on number squares. This is our second in a series for year 2 children where they have to complete the missing numbers in a 100 square. Some of the squares have been removed from the rectangles which, curiously, seems to make this task harder than when [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: Completing number squares