Your child will have to listen really carefully to be successful with this amusing game that helps with early counting. As it is only sounds that are being counted it is important to keep track – and fingers might be needed! The schoolboys just can’t stop their hiccups! Listen carefully and count how many hiccups [...]

Another area of maths that we have had several requests for is early division. Over the next few days we will be updating this, starting with four pages on dividing by 10. Dividing by 10 is probably the easiest of all mental division. All these questions only have division of multiples of 10 so there [...]

Sometimes the easiest way to carry out a subtraction sum is to count up from the lower number. This is especially true if the two numbers are close to each other, but cross the tens boundary. A subtraction such as 41 – 37 could be done in this way. Count on 3 to 40 and [...]

These four worksheets are aimed at giving children practice at subtracting multiples of ten from 100. The aim of this is that they learn the answers off by heart, so they no longer have to count on or back. As there only a short number of possibilities it is important for children to know these [...]

Here we have a set of pages where the subtraction number sentence need to be completed. There are several different strategies which can be used to do this, depending on which number is missing. For example: in the number sentence 16 – ? = 7 the best way to do this is to count back [...]

Children need plenty of practice at counting on and back, not just in ones, but in twos, threes, fives and tens. It is also important to start at different numbers. These four maths worksheets concentrate on counting up and down using number tracks or number lines with missing numbers. The more confident children are with [...]

One of the easiest ways of subtracting nine from a number is to subtract ten and then add one. This is a simple mental arithmetic ‘trick’ which many children do not pick up on and is much quicker than counting back nine using fingers etc. Probably the only time this method is not the most [...]

Children should be very familiar with counting up and down in fives before attempting these worksheets. All the numbers on the pages are multiples of 5. Join them in pairs so that each pair adds up to 100. Watch out for a common error with this type of work whereby children add an extra 10 [...]

10p will buy you a sweet. But how much change will you get? I am sure that your child enjoys playing ‘shop’ at home and these four worksheets provide extra re-inforcement for them at giving change from 10p. These days you tend to get your change plonked into your hand with the till receipt – [...]

The next in our rapidly developing series of addition worksheets for children who are getting more confident with mental arithmetic and can handle 2-digit numbers. These pages look at adding a 2-digit number to a multiple of 10, again all answers keep to below 100. This is also good reinforcement of place value. Watch out [...]