Tweet The Triple Jump is a fascinating event, combining great athleticism with co-ordination. Originally known as the hop, step and jump it is an excellent activity to carry out with children using a standing start rather than a run up. The American, James Connolly was one of the early competitors, winning in Athens in 1896. Triple [...] . . . → Read More: Maths worksheet: the triple jump

Tweet I have had several requests for another page of subtracting 2-digits from 3-digits, a worksheet that was published about a month ago. So here it is! The benefit of the worksheet is that the questions keep to fairly small numbers but increase in difficulty and can show clearly whether children have fully grasped the standard [...] . . . → Read More: More subtraction using the standard method

Tweet It’s lovely and sunny here and the Olympics are well under way, so what better than a weather chart to brighten the day even further! This worksheet shows a weather graph of the average maximum and minimum temperatures for each month of the year for London and shows just why August is a pretty good [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: Weather chart

Tweet One of the great athletic competitions is the Men’s Long Jump. It has been a part of the athletics events since their beginnings. It demands a combination of speed, power and lift. As with the Women’s Long Jump, the rules are strict; for example no part of the foot must land over the board and [...] . . . → Read More: Long jump maths worksheet

Tweet I have had a number of requests for more pages that let children practise the written method of addition, but without making the questions too hard. It is the method which is important to become familiar with. All the rest will depend on how well children know number bonds and can apply them. The method [...] . . . → Read More: More written addition worksheets

Tweet We begin the summer term’s mental arithmetic papers for year 3 with a reasonably easy set of questions. The first two questions look at writing numbers in figures. e.g. ‘write in figures: four hundred and nine. ‘ Most children should be able to do this but watch out for those who are unsure about place [...] . . . → Read More: Year 3 mental arithmetic: sets 49 and 50

Tweet This worksheet is another in our series on the types of questions that come up on the SAT papers. It is another on graphs, but quite a lot harder. The first part of the worksheet looks at a line graph showing temperatures in a kitchen over a 12 hour period.A key difference between this and [...] . . . → Read More: Key Stage 2 Maths SAT practice: graphs (4)

Tweet Here is the next in our mini series of maths worksheets looking at the types of questions involving graphs that come up in the SAT papers. The first part of the worksheet looks at interpreting a tally chart. Children should have had plenty of practice with making and interpreting tally charts from year 2/3 onwards [...] . . . → Read More: Year 6 SATs practice: graphs (3)

Tweet It is not too long now before the latest round of Year 6 SATs comes so I thought I would put a week aside to provide worksheets to help with this. Today I have published a page which looks at the type of question which comes up on interpreting bar charts. A bar chart shows [...] . . . → Read More: Year 6 SATs practice: Graphs (1 and 2)

Tweet Here is a straightforward maths worksheet which looks at multiplying by 2, 3, 5 and 10. Probably this page can be best used as an assessment page to see just how well these tables have been learned. They are the first four tables to be learnt and only the three times tables should cause much [...] . . . → Read More: Maths worksheet: Multiplying by 2, 3, 5 and 10