Numeracy Worksheets
URBrainy provides a superb collection of numeracy worksheets enabling children to:
- enjoy their maths
- become confident in their own ability
- be quick and accurate in mental arithmetic
- be proficient with pencil and paper methods
- be inspired to improve their knowledge of number
Our numeracy worksheets fully cover all ages from 4 to 11 to ensure children understand number, have rapid mental arithmetic skills, use efficient written methods of calculating and use these skills to solve problems.
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It's easy to spot children who are proficient in numeracy. By watching them working on a maths problem they will:
- be confident with numbers (counting, reading and writing numbers up to millions, decimals etc) and know where numbers fit into the number system.
- know by heart their tables, number bonds (addition and subtraction of single figures) and the doubles and halves of simple numbers.
- use the above knowledge to work out harder calculations mentally.
- use the above knowledge to calculate accurately with pencil and paper methods.
- use the above knowledge for quickly checking (mentally) that an answer is sensible.
- use the above knowledge to recognise when to use a calculator and to estimate the approximate size of an answer.
- recognise what operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide) to carry out to achieve the correct answer.
- be confident in explaining what they are doing and why they are doing it in that particular way.
- be confident in estimating and measuring a range of units of measurement, in length, mass, volume etc.
- be confident in interpreting numbers presented in tables, charts and graphs.
Our worksheets and activities will lead them to this confidence and proficiency with number.
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Understanding Number
Understanding of numbers and the number system goes hand in hand with calculating. The Number System means concepts such as place value, ordering numbers, estimating and rounding, fractions etc.
In Year 1 this may be learning to count to ten or recognising half of a shape. By Year 3 children will be counting in hundreds and working with tenths, whilst by Year 5 children will be expected to read and write in millions and find fractions of numbers.
Mental Arithmetic
More emphasis is placed on mental methods of calculating than anything else in today’s schools. Time and time again attention is drawn to the fact that a range of mental methods needs to be taught and that for any sum, children should ask whether it can be done mentally before resorting to pencil and paper methods.
There are two aspects to this: knowing by heart and figuring out. So, it is expected that children would know by heart that 6 x 7 is 42, but it is also expected that this knowledge can be used to quickly work out that 60 x 7 is 420. Pencil and paper methods should not be necessary for this.
As well as the hundreds of worksheets which emphasise mental methods, we also have a range of mental arithmetic questions which can be used to test knowledge. Our great on-screen activities also contain many fun activities and games which encourage knowing by heart and figuring out.
Calculations
The approach to calculation has seen a significant shift with the introduction of the Numeracy Strategy. For example, written methods of doing 'sums' such as subtraction develop from 'mental methods' to 'informal written methods,' before a 'standard written method' is introduced in Year 3.
However, much of the Strategy is very similar to the ways teachers have taught previously. Our products give teachers and parents the confidence to teach and help in the right way, by showing the methods suggested and at what stages they should be introduced.
Solving Problems
There is a great emphasis on problem solving in the Strategy. Many children find this kind of work very hard as they are unsure of the mathematical processes to use to achieve the correct result. It is rather like solving a puzzle, working out what the puzzle means and then what maths is needed to solve it.
In Year 1 this might be a question such as, "What coins can I use to pay for a sweet costing 5p?", whilst by Year 6 the problem may involve carrying out several different calculations - multi step operations as they are known. Often there is more than one way to answer these questions, and discussing the problem with your children is a really good approach to take.
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