Tweet The term perpendicular was usually introduced to children in the upper primary years and indeed into secondary school, but it is now thought that it should be introduced in year 3. At this stage children just need to be able to recognise two lines which are perpendicular to each other and to make it easier [...] . . . → Read More: Perpendicular lines

Tweet Understanding factors and multiples is something many children fail to grasp. Here we have a page on factors and how to find all the factors of a number. The process is fairly straightforward, but can be quite time consuming. A good knowledge of tables and division is also needed. So if children’s knowledge of tables [...] . . . → Read More: Year 6 resource of the week: factors

Tweet Our Roman numerals clock face worksheet has proved very popular so I thought I would post another similar page, but including quarter to and quarter past the hour times. I have also been asked why the clock face shows IIII for four o’clock rather than IV. In fact most Roman clockfaces do show the four [...] . . . → Read More: Roman numeral clock faces (2)

Tweet I really like this challenge, partly because there is no, one right way to answer it and partly because it really makes children think. There are 10 digits, from zero to nine to be placed in the 10 boxes in such a way that the targets can be matched as closely as possible. The catch [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: Year 5 Number Challenge

Tweet To be able to successfully help your child with maths at home it is important to have a good idea of what is expected in school. This is a list of the targets expected of children by the end of Year 1 and most teachers will be planing their work around these. Of course this [...] . . . → Read More: Targets for Year 1

Tweet Sometimes it is much easier to carry out a calculation mentally (in your head) than to use the standard written method. This page of questions illustrates this perfectly. It looks at taking a one-digit number away from a multiple of a thousand. if this was written down on paper it would involve considerable amounts of [...] . . . → Read More: Subtracting from whole thousands

Tweet It is important that children become familiar with calculators as they will be using them more and more as they progress through High School. There are many skills to learn and in this activity it is certainly a great help to be able to work out mentally division calculations. as the calculator will only confirm [...] . . . → Read More: Calculator game: 9x table

Tweet Some children do not realise that a fraction such as 2/10 can also be written as a decimal i.e. 0.2. In one sentence we have two of the major sticking points in maths, but here we have a maths worksheet which neatly combines the two, showing the equivalence between fractions and decimal fractions. One way [...] . . . → Read More: Year 4 maths worksheet: decimal fractions and tenths

Tweet This week I would like to look at a page of practice on using the short method of division of decimals. The numbers being divided are just units and tenths which helps with getting the method correct. There are arguments for and against putting the decimal point in before you start, or leaving it until [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: short division of decimals

Tweet What looks like a very simple worksheet is actually rather tricky. There are six statements about pairs of numbers, along the lines of: Find a pair of numbers with a sum of 8 and a product of 15. Firstly, children need to know that the sum of two numbers is found by adding up. Secondly, [...] . . . → Read More: Year 3 Maths: Find the missing numbers