Don’t forget that each of our weekly maths resources for Year 2 contains four great sets of mental arithmetic questions. Also this week are superb worksheets on: solving problems involving shape and money recalling addition facts recalling multiplication facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables visualising 3D shapes subtracting from whole tens sorting [...]

Here we have another set of maths worksheets on number patterns which is harder than the first published in our Year 2 Counting section. These pages  look at counting up and down in twos, threes, fives and tens and are not restricted to those numbers found in the ‘times tables’. There are two steps involved [...]

Jane from Doncaster has asked us if we could produce some maths worksheets on adding multiples of ten as there is a little gap in our resources; so here they are, found in our Year 2 addition section. These are basic pages which all concentrate on adding multiples of 10. Keeping to numbers below 100 [...]

As we get into the new term we have another set of resources for busy teachers and parents to support their children with the maths done in school. Worksheets this week include pages on: completing addition number sentences magic square challenge finding half of numbers and half of shapes sharing equally and deriving and recalling [...]

Once children are really familiar with halves they can be introduced to quarters in a practical situation. There are two different aspects to this: a. dividing a number of objects into 4 (eg 20 sweets between 4 girls) b. dividing one whole one into 4 (eg a bar of chocolate shared equally between 4 boys) [...]

We move onto Block B of the planning and a set of resources aimed at securing number facts and understanding shape. This week’s programme includes printable pages on: solving problems involving addition deriving and recalling addition facts deriving and recalling multiplication facts for the 2 and 5 times tables investigating patterns using 4 squares A [...]

This week we have published two more Year 2 measurement worksheets on reading scales. This time we look at capacity and reading how much a container holds which has a scale going up in tens. However, the divisions are only labelled on every other one, so the ability to count in tens is important. This [...]

Already we are into week 2 of our Year 2 resources and a brand new set of Brainy Targets for the week. A little bit harder this week, now the rustiness of the summer holidays has past. This week our activities are designed to help with: Reading and writing 2-digit numbers Counting larger numbers by [...]

In the classroom there seem to be two types of child: one type that always has a hand up to answer a question; and the other type that avoids eye contact and doesn’t answer out loud. Which type is your child? For teachers, it is much easier for the lesson to flow if she keeps [...]

Coming up tomorrow is another of those fascinating dates that mathematicians love. No, not the kind of date you have with your boy/girl friend, but the date, date type. At the sixth second of the seventh minute of the eighth hour of October 2010 the date will be: 06.07.08.09.10 or it can be written as [...]