Archives for "December, 2009"
Resource of the Week: Christmas tree puzzle
It doesn’t seem like a year ago that this little Christmas maths puzzle was posted, but Christmas is now just around the corner (although our local garden centre would have me believe that it started in early October!). This puzzle looks quite easy but can cause a lot of problems. Probably suitable for older children, [...]
Maths worksheet: Multiplication word problems for Year 2
This worksheet looks at multiplication word problems taken from real life situations. All the questions can be answered if the 2x table is known. There are picture illustrations on this page to help. Some children may use these to count up in twos, but being able to count up is not the same as knowing [...]
Year 6 maths worksheet: Converting metric units
By year 6 children will be very familiar with the metric system, but here is a worksheet which should test their knowledge and ability to convert from a larger metric unit to a smaller one. It involves converting metres to centimetres, centimetres to millimetres, kilograms to grams and litres to millilitres.What makes it more tricky [...]
Coming Soon: Metric system, multiplication and negative numbers
By year 6 children will be very familiar with the metric system, but next week we have a worksheet which should test their knowledge and ability to convert from a larger metric unit to a smaller one. We also continue with our series of multiplication for Year 2 with some multiplication word problems taken from [...]
Percentages for year 5 (pg 2)
Here is the second of our percentages worksheets for Year 5. It is typical of the English that we manage to write per cent in two different ways. Unlike the Americans who use percent we use two words per cent, apart from when we write percentage when we put it altogether. Download “Y5 Percentage2”File Size: [...]
Resource of the Week: game: cross numbers
Maths games can be great for improving knowledge and this one we borrowed from the mathsphere.co.uk site, which is part of their extensive free resources. Feeling confident about 2x, 5x and 10x tables? Why not have a go at this cross number? Just drag the numbers across to the correct squares. Easy peasy if you [...]
Year 2 Calculations: Multiplication and shopping
Setting up a little shop and buying and selling things has always been a great part of early maths, but usually this activity is limited to adding up and giving change. It can be used equally well to reinforce multiplication skills, as this worksheet shows. Download “Multiplication_and_shopping”File Size: 117.38 KB
Year 2 maths worksheet: Multiplication in any order
Here we have a maths worksheet, one of a set from urbrainy.com, which looks at a vital part of understanding the process of multiplication: that it can be done in any order. This is also true of addition, but not of subtraction or division. Download “Multiplication_in_any_order”File Size: 58.78 KB
Mangahigh Review: Online maths for High School
A relatively new site which has come to my attention recently is mangahigh.com. Aimed at High School students, this would only be appropriate to older primary children with a good mathematical knowledge. A great free game to try out would be Ice Ice Maybe on estimation which is well within the range of older primary [...]
Coming Soon: Multiplication and percentages
Two maths worksheets for year 2 coming up next week. One looks at a vital part of understanding the process of multiplication: that it can be done in any order. This is also true of addition, but not of subtraction or division. Setting up a little shop and buying and selling things has always been [...]
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