To give you a quick idea of the maths worksheets available here are four pages from our ‘Moving On’ section, especially written for children who have gained confidence in counting above 10.

This set of pages helps with adding money. Add the 10p coin to the other coins to find out how much the rabbit has. Why not use real coins to help you?

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Let’s begin by looking at what is expected by the end of the Reception year – that’s children aged between 4 and 5 years old. This is sometimes called the Foundation Stage. Yes, even our 5 year olds have targets to reach!
I will go through each of the strands in turn, but as you go through them it will become clear that the most important thing of all is to talk with your children and use the vocabulary of simple maths to help them describe the world around them.

Counting and understanding number:

·    Children should be able to say and use number names up to 10. A good example of this would be to join in nursery rhymes or songs such as
“One, two three, four, five. Once I caught a fish alive.” Read the rest of this entry »

The content of this site follows the expectations laid down by the National Curriculum, in particular the Primary Framework for Mathematics. The Primary Framework sets out yearly teaching programmes from Reception through to Year 6. Part of these teaching programmes is a set of key objectives – in other words, key things which teachers should concentrate on during each particular year.

This article will try and guide you, in layman’s terms, through the key objectives for the first year and give examples of the kind of maths that is meant by them. In this way you should be able to have a better understanding of what your child is (probably) being taught in school and what the Primary Framework says that they ought to be able to do. Read the rest of this entry »

The Early Years or The Foundation Stage in English Education is considered to be from the age of 3 to 5. (Not to be confused with Foundation GCSE exams at 16!) This covers the years when a child might go to a nursery through to the end of the reception class in a Primary School.

The Government has made funds available for all children to have a free, part time, ‘early years’ education. By 2010 this will be 15 hours a week. The aim is to give all children the very best start to their educational life. This education does not have to be in a school: play groups, nurseries, accredited childminders and children’s centres are just some of the ways this Early Years education can take place. Of course, there is no compulsion to send your child to a nursery, playgroup etc: some of the best education takes place at home!
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This is a sample sets of worksheets in pdf format to give you an idea of the range of material available, but don’t forget, it is just as easy to sign up for a three day free trial and browse and use everything that we have for your child.

Here we have an example from our ‘Starting off’ section for young children who are learning to count up to 5. Enjoy counting and colouring the cheeky gorillas. These great, coloured pages will help your child to count up to 5 and become confident with small numbers.

This is a pdf

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A great set of four worksheets helping with recognising rectangles, triangles and circles. It’s a help to have some templates of these shapes handy to draw round and create fun pictures of your own. The robot on page 4 is a good example of what can be produced.

Talk about the shapes and the properties of them eg a triangle has three straight sides…a rectangle has 4 sides and 4 right angles. Find examples of these shapes around the house, draw them in sand etc.

Go to our Using 2D shape (2) worksheets

Apart from the equals sign, the plus sign is the first maths sign that most children come across, but they will have carried out a lot of mental addition and used the term well before coming across the sign. It is introduced here, but we are keeping to small numbers that total up to 9.  Your child can work out the addition sums on the balloons with the correct gorillas and draw a line to join them. You will find this four page resource on our Addition pages of the Moving On category. This is just one of a fantastic range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our resources on Using the Plus Sign

When children are very confident with counting in ones and they have also worked with larger numbers in the teens, they can be introduced to counting up in whole tens. At first this will be up to 100. These four worksheets give plenty of practice at writing the whole tens that come before and after others. This, of course, is very similar to counting from one to ten, but don’t say that a nought has been added: much better to say the units digit has moved one place to the left and a nought has been placed in the units.

Follow the dogs leads to complete the number lines in whole tens up to 90.

Go to our resources: Counting in whole tens

There are some nifty hats and some pretty awful hats amongst these maths worksheets on matching sets of objects. The worksheets will help your child with counting up to 9, but they might not prove as easy as they look. Unlike earlier pages the number of hats can not necessarily be identified without counting.  It might be an idea to jot down the total inside the circle before starting to count another set of hats. This is just one of a fantastic range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with number and enjoy their maths. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

Go to our Resources on Matching Sets of Objects

An abacus is a counting frame and has been used extensively throughout Asia and Africa to help with calculating. It is an excellent resource for helping your child understand 2-digit numbers up to 99. It shows clearly the two columns, the units and the tens. In other words the 2 yellow balls in the tens column have a value of 20 whilst the two balls in the units column have a value of 2. This will also help later when multiplying by 10 as they can see each digit moving one place to the left. You can pick up an abacus from shops such as The Early Learning Centre but they tend to have the rows of beads going across rather than vertically, which is not as helpful.

Go to our Resources on Recognising Numbers up to 99.