As always there is a great collection of mental arithmetic pages, this week we have activities on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. There’s also plenty of Handling Data in our most recent resources covering the planning for Year 2, Block C, Unit 3. The first set of pages looks at pictograms, where one image of [...]

This week we have a great set of resources concentrating on Handling Data and Measurement. It is difficult to track down good resources for interpreting maps and reading scales, but here they are!  We also include pages on measuring using centimetres. There are many practical opportunities for this, using a centimetre ruler or a tape [...]

Here we have three great pages on practising the two, five and ten times tables. Begin at the START and put in the answers to the table next to the initial number and continue to work around the board until the FINISH is reached. As each worksheet is on just one of the tables they [...]

This week we publish the last of our resources for Block B of the Primary Framework for Mathematics. Very similar to weeks 27 and 28, this week reinforces a number of important concepts first introduced earlier. They include: working logically to find ways of making 20 using three even numbers use knowledge of partitioning to [...]

This is a really good maths challenge or investigation, suitable for children towards the end of Year 2 or beginning of Year 3, when children have gained confidence in counting up to ten and adding small numbers together. It would be very helpful to have some plastic coins or even real coins handy to help [...]

Here we have quite an advanced weather chart for children in Year 2 to get to grips with. It shows the weather for March in the form of a chart with images to show the different types of weather. It is not easy to find suitable data for young children to interpret, but not only [...]

I know that a lot of home schoolers are finding these weekly sets of worksheets really useful as they can be fully matched to the Primary Framework for Maths. So here we go with week 28, well into the Summer Term. This week we have activities on: working logically to find all the ways of [...]

This is a simple little investigation which can prove to be quite tricky. On a 3 by 3 grid how many counters can be placed without getting three in a row? You can have a single counter in a row or two, but not three. Are there different arrangements of the possible maximum number? Once [...]

We are well into the summer term now and the work expected of 6/7 year olds in year 2 is quite challenging. To help them we have a great selection of our resources which match the Primary Framework for Maths for Block B, Unit 3, including four more sets of mental arithmetic questions. other worksheets [...]

Here we have four pages of word problems using measurement, suitable for Year 2 children (6 – 7 yrs old). The first two pages are about length, using centimetres. The last two pages are about mass, or weight, using grams and kilograms. The questions themselves are quite easy, using addition or multiplication to work them [...]