Year 2 Autumn Term Block 1: Number and Place Value

We now have a superb range of material which we are sure you will find useful if you are looking for maths mastery ideas to supplement work done in school or to help at home. The first block of three weeks covers number and place value.

Children will be expected to build on their knowledge of number to count, read and write up to 100. Place value charts and bar models are an excellent way to help with this, especially with partitioning numbers.

Number lines are also really useful to help place numbers.

Comparing numbers is an important aspect of this block, along with using language such as bigger than/smaller than and the > and < signs.

Once counting in ones has been firmly established children will be asked to count in fives and tens.

Maths Mastery: on-screen number activities for year 2

Maths games suitable for iPad or PC covering counting to 100, using number lines and grids, part-whole models and base ten blocks. Great for consolidation and same day intervention.

Counting to 20

Counting objects up to a total of 20.

Number lines to 20

Find the number shown by the arrow on the number line.

Part-whole models

Find the missing numbers in the part-whole models.

Completing the number track

Fill in the missing number on the number track: counting in 3s, 5s and 10s.

Reading place value grids

Read the place value grid using tens and ones.

Using base 10 blocks

Writing numbers by reading the value of base 10 blocks: tens and ones only.

Number lines to 100

Find the number shown by the arrow on the number line.

Using > < and = signs

Using the <, > and = symbols to compare two numbers.

Maths Mastery worksheets: counting

Reading and writing numbers up to 100, recognising tens and ones, estimating and placing numbers on a number line

4 pages

Read and write 2-digit numbers (3)

More reading and writing of 2-digit numbers.

6 pages

Position numbers on a number square

Fill in the missing numbers on a section of a number square. Not as easy as it might look.

5 pages

Place value chart to 100

Using place value charts to represent numbers.

4 pages

Interpreting tens and ones (bar models)

Using bar models to help make number sentences correct. Use of < > and =.

6 pages

Estimating on a number line to 10

Four tricky pages on estimating where whole numbers lie on a blank number line.

8 pages

Harder number lines (1)

Tricky number line work.

6 pages

More number lines

Maths Mastery: comparing numbers

Comparing numbers using larger, smaller, more than and less than. Putting numbers in order. Counting in threes, fives and tens.

4 pages

Comparing: place value grids (1)

Comparing amounts shown in place value grids.

5 pages

Larger or smaller

Finding larger or smaller numbers.

4 pages

Circle the greater amount (1)

Circle the greater amount using words and numbers.

4 pages

Using more than, less than and equals symbols (2)

More use of > < and = symbols to compare numbers.

5 pages

Putting numbers in order

Put sets of 2-digit numbers in order, starting with either the largest or smallest.

5 pages

Number half way between two others

4 tricky pages on finding numbers which are between two other 2-digit numbers. Also find a number exactly half way between two other numbers.

5 pages

Continue number patterns: counting in fives

Plenty of practice at counting up in fives and seeing the patterns.

5 pages

Count on in tens

Here are four great maths worksheets for those children who are confident with counting in ones and are ready to move on to counting up in tens from any 2-digit number. Whilst the pages concentrate on the same skill, they are all very different. Don't be surprised if your child uses fingers to help them with this. For example, counting on 3 tens from 21, many children will start at 21, hold one finger up for 31, 2 for 41 etc.

5 pages

Count back 3, 4, 5 and 6

Counting back is the preliminary stage before subtracting 'in your head'. These worksheets ask your child to count back from numbers up to 20. At first they will probably use fingers or other maths material to count back, but as they gain confidence they will begin to use other mental methods and begin to know the answers ' off by heart'.