This is a great way for your child to learn about subtraction by counting back in ones. The frogs will help to hop back along the number line to do each subtraction. With four pages to chose from there’s plenty here to help get started with counting back.

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. There are many more subtraction pages and a growing number of fun games to play. Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

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Telling the time is one of those benchmarks which many parents use to judge how well their children are doing. In fact, many children find time a difficult concept and with the use of digital watches, mobile phones etc they come across the traditional clock face less and less.

This set of maths worksheets is the first of our pages on telling the time to the hour, one of the earliest stages of reading a clock face.

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Telling the Time (1)

Just about everybody knows about noughts and crosses, but Misox is much more thought provoking, yet just as easy to play. Play it just like noughts and crosses, taking it in turns to place counters on the board. But… the player who makes a straight line of three LOSES the game. Don’t be too certain that you will beat your son or daughter!

Logical thinking is an important part of maths, especially in later years and this type of activity is excellent at strengthening your child’s thinking.

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Once children are really happy with adding two 1-digit numbers then they can move on to adding three small numbers mentally. There are various strategies that they can use to help them.

Probably the best strategy of all is to start with the largest number, and this should be the case for the majority of questions. Sometimes they might choose to start by adding two other numbers because they already know the answer and then count on the third number. Another strategy to use is to look for pairs of numbers which make 10.

This set of worksheets is part of our new section on ‘Superbrains’ which is developing quickly and is aimed at slightly older children who are moving into Key Stage 1.  Why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 more maths resources?

Adding 3 numbers (1)

Number lines are very popular in schools, being used extensively to help with counting, adding and subtraction. This is one of 6 sets of number line worksheets each containing four pages.

Your child can help the dragons complete the number lines whilst improving their knowledge and understanding of number. With more missing numbers and numbers up to 10, these are getting harder. 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?

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Whether it is bath water or a jar of sweets, the terms empty and full are very important when talking about capacity. This is an area of maths which is quite interesting with young children. They will decide which container holds the most by its height rather than size and it is well worth spending some time filling different containers with the same amount of water.

Try filling a tall glass with three cups of water and a short, fat glass with four cups of water so that the tall glass has a higher level of water. Even though a child knows that there are only 3 cups of water in the tall glass and 4 in the  short glass, they will still say that there is more in the tall glass. Fascinating!

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Some children work better with pencil and paper methods. Others prefer to have an on-screen activity which they can whizz through and get instant feedback. let your child choose which they would like to do as we have plenty of both kinds of activity. This is a fun game to help with counting up to 5. The farmer wants to know how many cows he has in his field. Just count all the cows on the screen and click on the right number?

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Here we have a tricky set of maths worksheets on counting back in tens, starting from any 2-digit number. An important thing to point out to children is that the units will remain the same as the number gets ten less. This is good practice at understanding place value, so important later on.

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Here we have another great set of maths worksheets on subtraction. There are two key concepts for your child you be familiar with on these worksheets. Firstly, the subtraction sign is used. Secondly, the idea of a function machine, where a number is put in, an operation is carried out and a number is sent out. Believe it or not, this is a great early introduction to algebra. Our robot is now a ‘take 3′ machine. What numbers will be coming out of him/her?

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Children soon become familiar with squares, triangles and circles. As well as looking at these 2D shapes, this set of worksheets also introduces other 4 sided shapes and ovals. You can be very creative with a set of shapes to draw round, making all sorts of pictures. Why not have a go?

This is another in our great range of fun  maths activities which will quickly help your child become confident with shape and measures and enjoy their maths. With new worksheets and maths games coming online every week, why not sign up now for completely free use of well over 1000 maths resources?

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