The name Modern pentathlon comes from the Greek ‘penta’ which means 5. (Hence a pentagon has 5 sides). The original Greek pentathlon consisted on a race, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discuss, but Baron Pierre de Coubertin created a new set of events to reflect the soldiers duties in the 19th century. He stated that [...]

There will be ten Gold medals to compete for at the London Olympics Track Cycling, 5 for men and 5 for women. The track events will take place at the brand new Velodrome, built especially for the Olympics and should prove to be an exciting few days. The maths worksheet looks at the results from [...]

Archery has come and gone from the Olympics but has remained on the programme since being reintroduced in 1972. It is a knockout competition with the last two archers left going for the Gold and Silver medals. The target consists of ten rings, made up of 5 colours. Points are scored depending on which ring [...]

This is the very first in our new series of maths worksheets for the London Olympics. Each week we will publish a new set of pages covering an aspect of the Olympic Games, including graphs, bar charts, measurement and much more. Our very first set looks at the medals table for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [...]

I hope you are enjoying the lead up to Christmas this year. To help get into the spirit we are launching a special offer here at URBrainy. You can get 18 months for the price of 12! That’s a whole 6 months extra free on our already discounted yearly rate. You can subscribe for just [...]

Here we have two sets of worksheets on adding up the cost of buying Christmas tree decorations. The first set deals with multiples of 10p and is therefore much easier. Perhaps the hardest part is matching the images to the cost and some children will find it helpful to make jottings next to the images. [...]

Next May our Year 6 children will be taking the Maths SAT Papers and now is the perfect time to start thinking about how they can achieve the best possible result. To help with this we have just published the Maths SAT Papers A and B for the last two years: 2010 and 2011. They [...]

Hi! November 5th is coming up soon and as we love firework displays we thought it would be a great idea to publish some Bonfire night worksheets. We’re lucky down here in Weymouth as we get a great firework display over the sea every Monday night during the summer, but most people only get to [...]

Tricky question for you today! How would you do 15 x 8 in your head? Think carefully of the process you went through to find the answer. One way is to double 15 to make 30 and then multiply 30 by 4 to make 120. Or I could multiply 8 by 10 to get 80 [...]

To add to our addition games, we have nw released a set of subtraction games for you to enjoy. There are 24 great new mental maths games on subtraction for children aged between 8 and 9 (that’s year 4 in the UK).  To make it a little easier to find the one you would like [...]