Plenty of practice here at counting on in fives, right up to 100. As confidence grows children should recognise the patterns involved with counting in fives. The units digit is always a five or zero. They alternate, also making odd and even numbers. Don’t mistake the ability to count up in fives with knowing the [...]

Here we have two pages which give a series of questions related to the six digits shown. Some of these might take longer than others; for example, finding three numbers from six that total 20 will probably involve some ‘trial and improvement’ techniques, although children who are confident with knowing the totals of any 2 [...]

The Primary Framework for Maths is very keen that children understand the relationships between numbers and operations. One of the most important is to realise that subtraction is the inverse of addition. So, once one fact is known, such as 6 + 8 = 14, other facts can immediately be derived, ie 8 + 6 [...]

Trying to count a large number of objects can be quite daunting and it is very easy to miscount or forget where you have got to. One solution is to simplify the task by grouping objects into tens. if this is a physical exercise they can be moved into separate areas but if counting objects [...]

Here we have another set of pages to help with counting on in tens from a 2-digit numbers. A little care needs to be taken with these as the question asks, “How many tens did you count?” So, when counting in tens from 23 to 43 the answer is 2 (tens), not twenty. Many children [...]

In year 1 children most children will have been writing single digit numbers in words. As they come across  larger numbers more idiosyncrasies creep into our spelling, making them trickier. Rules do not appear to follow. For example: fourteen is spelt with a ‘u’ but forty is not. I don’t know why, but it does [...]

The final week of our superb collection of resources for the Year 1 Primary Framework programme. This week we have mental arithmetic questions on more than and less than, addition, subtraction and sharing. There is also an excellent selection of printable pages covering counting in 3s, 4s 5s, counting back in twos, finding half of [...]

Here is a nice set of pages which checks on children’s ability to understand the terms ‘next to’, ‘above’ and ‘below’. It is surprising that knowledge of terms such as these by-pass some children and this makes it very difficult for them to complete tasks correctly, not from a lack of mathematical ability but from [...]

With the end of the summer term not too far away now we have the penultimate set of resources in our Year 1 programme.  Week 35 looks at solving practical problems involving measurement, solving problems with addition and money and some quite tricky symmetrical patterns. As well as this there are also some great pages [...]