It’s the start of a brand new term, in a brand new year and we have a great set of resources to help get you under way. This week the mental arithmetic concentrates on counting and place value and the challenge is a fun activity with four darts scoring. We also have pages on: reading [...]

Children often use number squares to help them with their calculating, although sooner or later the aim is to rely on memory and fast recall of number facts. This week we are publishing a resource which uses a number square in a different way. Only part of the number square is shown and most of [...]

Although it might appear straightforward, reflective symmetry can prove to be very tricky for many children, especially those with poor spacial awareness. These symmetry worksheets ask children to colour the other side of a mirror line to make a symmetrical pattern. It is very easy to get this wrong by just repeating the pattern rather [...]

There is a tremendous amount for children to learn in Year 2 and two shapes that we might expect to be left until later are, nevertheless, included in the Year 2 curriculum. Two such shapes are pentagons and hexagons. A pentagon has 5 straight sides. Some pentagons have all the sides equal and this is [...]

Knowing the doubles of single digit numbers is a powerful mental arithmetic tool and one strongly emphasised by the Primary Framework for maths. Once the doubles have been learned it is a short step to being able to work out the halves of even numbers up to 20. These two worksheets put a slightly different [...]

Some children seem to get into a mind set where they think that an answer can always be worked out by carrying out just one task or operation. This is probably because nearly all early years addition, subtraction etc problems only involve one step. However, all these questions need two steps to work them out. [...]

The last in the first term’s weekly resources for year 2 and with Christmas just around the corner, a much needed time saver for teachers. This week is very much a ‘four rules’ week, with some great pages on: practising the 5 times table completing number squares completing subtraction number sentences doubling and halving small [...]

Some of the best worksheets involve a more open approach where there is more than one possible answer. This is one such page. It gives the prices of four different foods/drinks and asks what could be bought for exactly 10p. There are quite a number of possible combinations so an important part of this is [...]

Coming up towards Christmas it’s always nice to have some seasonal maths. Here we have some great pages on buying Christmas decorations. This is excellent practice at adding several 2-digit numbers and as they are all multiples of 10 it’s not too tricky. Some children will need to make jottings on paper to help them [...]

Christmas is looming in most Primary Schools and with all the extra activities there is not so much time for planning and organising work. So why not take advantage of our Weekly collection of year 2 maths  resources which match the Primary Framework planning blocks? This week we aim to cover: finding quarters of a [...]