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