Archive for June, 2007

New resources from Primary Resources

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Primary ResourcesGreat new stuff at Primary Resources, including partitioning numbers, measuring length and Venn diagrams. All in Word format.

Maths worksheets: Mental addition of three numbers. Y6

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

These are about as hard as you get working in your head and jottings on paper may be needed to do them. Look back at earlier year groups to see the different strategies that can be used. The strategies are the same but the numbers are bigger.

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Sparklebox: web review

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

sparkleboxSparklebox Looking for some bright and lively graphics to print out and don’t mind using your colour printer.

Sparklebox provides teaching resources ( but no reason why parents can’t use them) for a whole range of subjects, including maths. (more…)

Boys not doing so well!

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

A report from the Rowntree Foundation suggests that white, working class boys are under achieving. When other factors such as school meals and neighbourhood are taken into account white boys are doing worse than their black, Afro Caribbean or Banglideshi counterparts.

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Maths worksheets: Mental addition of three numbers. S5

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Even more challenging: to add three larger numbers in your head. There are many different ways of going about these. Don’t forget the following tips, depending on the type of numbers involved:

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Maths worksheets: Mental addition of three numbers. Y4

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

When looking at adding three small numbers there are several strategies which can be employed. Usually it is better to start with the largest number, rather than the first number.

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Disabled children targeted by bullies

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

There is no end in sight for those bullies. Children with learning difficulties are twice as likely to face bullies as other children according to a report by Richard Garner in the Independent Online Education Channel.

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Maths worksheets: Adding two 2-digit numbers. Y3

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Two worksheets to help children with addition of two 2-digit numbers. Once knowledge of addition of single digits is secure this can be applied to 2-digit numbers, starting with adding teens.

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Maths worksheets: Addition of 2-digit and 1-digit numbers. Y2

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

In year 2 children will continue to develop their understanding of addition, beginning to work with larger numbers, but keep them below 100. Indeed, quite a lot of children will not be ready for dealing with 2-digit numbers. Don’t introduce larger numbers until they are really confident with single digit addition.

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Primary Resources: web review

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Primary ResourcesPrimary Resources Gareth Pitchford

Free maths stuff for 5 to 11 year olds produced in Word, pdf, Powerpoint and Flash! Can’t be bad!!

Primary resources is another of those UK sites which has been around a long time (9 years), increasing its content on a regular basis. Designed for teachers, it aims to develop a resource bank for teachers contributing their own ideas - in return everyone gets free access to the material. Parents are more than welcome to use the material.

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