Tweet 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 [...] . . . → Read More: Year 4 maths worksheet: Santa’s reindeer

Tweet 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 [...] . . . → Read More: Year 1 maths worksheet: Christmas halving

Tweet 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 [...] . . . → Read More: Calculator ban in Primary Schools

Tweet 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 [...] . . . → Read More: Top children’s reading books to help with maths

Tweet 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 [...] . . . → Read More: KS2 Maths SAT question 25 from 2010 Paper A

Tweet 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 [...] . . . → Read More: Year 2 investigation: 3 dice totals

Tweet 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 [...] . . . → Read More: Complete multiplication number sentences (3)

Tweet 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 [...] . . . → Read More: KS2 Maths SAT questions 23 and 24 from 2010 Paper A

Tweet Some new worksheets for conversion between metric and customary length measurements have been posted at the link here… Worksheets for Conversion Between Customary and Metric Lengths I’d hoped to have conversions for volume measurements to help with those complex Thanksgiving recipes… Watch for these soon! A few other updates were made to fix some minor grammar problems in [...] . . . → Read More: Worksheet Updates and Happy Thanksgiving!

Tweet Fractions worksheets! I can’t get seem to get enough! Regular visitors know how much time and energy I’ve put into the fraction worksheets, and their answer keys represent some of the more complex work on the site. If you look at the addition and subtraction worksheets, you’ll find detailed steps that show calculations for reaching common [...] . . . → Read More: Graphic Fraction Worksheets