Glove puppets are really popular in reception classes as a way of engaging children’s attention and there are many maths activities that they can be used for.This activity involves the glove puppet making mistakes in counting and the children have to correct the mistakes. Children are more than happy to go along with this and [...]

Success in maths is often the result of having the ability to see the patterns in numbers and use these patterns to work out further answers. These four maths worksheets look specifically at the patterns created when adding a single digit to a 2-digit number. Addition patterns

Plenty of work is done in schools on pairs of numbers that make 10, but less is done for pairs that make 20. If children know off by heart pairs that make 10 then they should be able to quickly calculate what is needed to make 20. A number line is included on the first [...]

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This is the second in our series of money worksheets for Year 2. It concentrates on giving change from £1 when spending multiples of 5p. In the ‘old days’ shopkeepers counted out your change rather than just plonking it in your hand with a receipt. So, for example, if you spent 35p they would say [...]

This is the latest in our series of worksheets on counting money. These four pages look at counting 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins and making amounts using a combination of them. Again, when adding mixed coins it is usually best to suggest starting with the largest coins. For many of the answers there will [...]

We usually think of counting on as being counting in ones, but the Primary Framework expects children to be able to count on in larger steps. These four worksheets concentrate on counting on 3, 4, 5 or 6 from a single digit. Your children will probably be confident enough to give some of the answers [...]

This is a nifty little investigation to help with addition of three  single digit numbers as well as logical thinking. Ten cards are shown, with the numbers from zero to nine. The task is simple, find three cards that make a total of 12. (eg 7 + 3 + 2). The challenge is to find [...]

Here we have a maths investigation on addition, suitable for year 2. There are four numbers shown. The task is to choose any three numbers and add them up. Each number can be used up to 3 times, but the total sum must not include more than 3 numbers. So the sum could be 2 [...]

Recognising and continuing number patterns is the earliest stage of algebra, but the name isn’t used until much later, usually at High School. The easier patterns are counting on in ones and twos, but these pages also include counting on and back in threes, fives and tens. If children have had plenty of practice counting [...]