Month: June 2012

Resource of the week: Maths puzzles

With half term upon us and most of the serious testing and examining over for another year, now is a great time to try out some maths puzzles which lead to a better knowledge of the subject and an improvement in logical thinking.

There are some great games and puzzles on the site for all aged children and they have been organised in broad area of difficulty. The ‘easy peasy’ section is geared towards young children and the word searches are all on the themes of maths vocabuary suitable for that age group. The maths wordsnakes come into the ‘tricky’ and ‘fiendish’ categories and are a challenge even for adults. Why not try them out?

It can still rain in the summer term and these worksheets are also ideal for wet breaks and lunchtimes!

Go to our maths puzzles

More on multiplying by 2, 3, 5 and 10

I have had several requests for more pages for children to use who are beginning to learn the times tables, so here is another page which takes a quick look at multiplying by 2, 3, 5 and 10.

Children who know the times tables ‘off by heart’ will find this page easy and will fly through it in no time at all. Children who don’t know the times tables will find it much harder and will take much longer to complete it. This makes it an excellent quick short term assessment page.

There is no easy way to learn tables, just a lot of slog going over them again and again until they become known so well that they can be answered as quickly as answering your name. High expectations can push children to success and a times table (e.g. 3 times table) can be recited in full in less than 10 seconds, or even less than 7 seconds if it is really well known.

This page, and other similar pages, can be found in our Year 3 Calculating category, as well as in the four rulrs section of the site.

Multiplying by 2, 3, 5 and 10 (2)

Resource of the Week: addtion, subtraction, multiplication and division

Most of our calculating worksheets are found in the respective year groups under ‘Calculations’, but I have provided a considerable number of extra pages in the ‘Four Rules’ section of the site which is often overlooked by our browsers.

This section covers both mental and written methods of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and is steadily increasing over the weeks. With over 100 worksheets already, it covers skills from Year 1 right up to Year 6; from adding a single digit up to long division and there are some very clear descriptions about how to tackle these tasks.

Siome of the most tricky concepts, including the standard methods of multiplication and division can be practiced at length and there are clear set by step guides on how to do them.

Why not go to our Four Rules category