Tweet A lot is expected of children in Year 2, especially what they should know off by heart when calculating. By the end of the year they should: •    know all addition facts for two numbers up to a total of 10.      (eg 4 + 5.) •    be able to derive subtraction facts for numbers up [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: know number facts in year 2

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

Tweet Here we have one page from a selection found in Year 2 which looks in detail at a 1-100 number square and is excellent practice at understanding place value as well as counting. We often take it for granted that children can count up to 100 easily, but in fact many children are not at [...] . . . → Read More: Using a number square in year 2

Tweet Looking through the range of resources it occurred to me that Valentine’s Day is coming up shortly. Sometimes it’s nice to have a change and special occasions such as Valentine’s Day allows us to do this. Here we have a maths worksheet suitable for Year 3 children with a Valentine Day’s theme. It is a [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the week: Valentine’s Day Maths

Tweet Here is a worksheet that makes children think a little bit more. It shows a number sentence with two numbers that total 18. It asks what the two numbers could be. The first thing to look for with this is children who use a logical or methodical approach. Usually children will write down the first [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: Make 18

Tweet Word problems can cause children quite a few problems as they have to work out what mathematical operation(s) to carry out to reach the right answers. This page is a set of word problems all to do with measurement, including time. In order to reach the correct answers children need to be able to calculate [...] . . . → Read More: Year 4 measurement word problems

Tweet This week I am looking at one of the hardest ideas to get across to children; carrying out a subtraction which requires adjusting across two columns. This only happens when there is a zero involved. For example: 703 286 – 3 – 6 does not give a positive answer so an adjustment to the top [...] . . . → Read More: Resource of the Week: written subtraction

Tweet There are not many questions on this page but they are tricky with some requiring several stages to answer. They are all to do with money and involve addition, multiplication and division. As a preview to answering SAT questions this page asks for all working out to be shown and tips on the answer page [...] . . . → Read More: Year 6 money problems