Maths help for parents of children aged 5 to 11
Drag the numbers on to the yellow balls, in order, starting with the lowest from left to right.
The clowns are trying to sort their balls into order. Help by dragging the numbers on to the yellow balls, in order, starting with the lowest from left to right.
Press Go when finished.
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This free maths worksheet concentrates on writing half kilometres as decimal fractions.
Children in the UK get far less experience at using kilometres than most Euoropeans because we have decided to keep with the mile for most of our longer measuring. Of course this is a nonsense: to start with a system using mm, cm and metres and then switch to a completely different system ie miles does not make any sense at all! Until our road signs are changed there is little hope of any improvement in this situation.
Whilst there are 1760 yards in a mile the much simpler metric system has the easy to calculate 1000 metres in a kilometre.
At this stage children should be beginning to write half a kilometre as 0.5 km but 1/2 km is acceptable. This free maths worksheet concentrates on writing half kilometres as decimal fractions.
Two similar maths worksheets here which demonstrate a number of techniques that can be used to answer SAT questions.
The first question asks for two numbers which add up to 140 from the selection given. The easiest approach to this is firstly to look at the units and find two which add up to 10, such as 28 and 32. Then to look to see if the tens digits are suitable; in this case they are not.
Try again 99 and 91 – this time too big.
Try 74 and 66.
6 and 4 make 10. 70 and 60 make 130. Add 10 to 130 makes 140 – there is your answer!
For question 3 the order is important. Start with an edge of the triangle which already has two numbers in.
Time to crack on with some more Booster worksheets as the dreaded SATs are not far away.
I will be concentrating on these maths worksheets for the next couple of weeks. For many children just a few extra marks can raise their level from a 3 to a 4 or a 4 to a 5. I’m not sure what it all means in the wider world but it is certainly good for children’s self confidence if they can get that higher level. The worksheet below is further practice at logical thinking.
Reception maths vocabulary: Position, direction and movement
Words which describe the position and direction of objects are very important to use with your children. Confidence in using these terms enables children to describe what is happening in the world around them. Many of the movement words are later used in mathematics with such topics as shape, co-ordinates, translations etc.
Reception maths vocabulary: Position, direction and movement
There are two parts to this free maths worksheet on classifying shapes, both involving Venn diagrams. The idea is to put either the names of shapes or drawings of shapes in the correct areas of the Venn diagram.
Some examples have been put in the Triangles diagram. Some careful thought needs to be put into this exercise. For example, is it possible to have a right angled triangle which is also isosceles (ie two sides the same length). If so, is it possible to have a right angled triangle which is also equilateral? I’ll leave to to work out the answers to these.
Notice the scalene triangle which is outside the other areas as it has no equal sides and no right angles.
The second diagram is to put polygons and quadrilaterals in: remember that whilst many of the quadrilaterals we see in real life are regular, they do not have to be so.
Free Y5 maths worksheet: Classify shapes using Venn diagrams
A square is a regular type of rectangle as it has four right angles and all four sides are equal in length.
A simple starter worksheet looking at recognising squares. A square is a regular type of rectangle as it has four right angles and all four sides are equal in length. For those of you who like to think about these things, it is a special case of a rhombus, kite, parallelogram and trapezoid. However, for the average five year old recognition alone is enough. Concentrate on pointing out that the sides have to be equal in length.
Most children will recognise a square when it is positioned horizontally on the page, put if it is tilted at an angle and appears to look more like a four sided star then this is much tougher to spot.
The writers of the SATs papers love little puzzles such as the square shown on this worksheet.
Those lovely people who write the SATs really like little mathematical puzzles. One such puzzle is to fill in missing numbers in a square or block. There will always be a logical way to find the answers, usually by completing what is possible will lead to the creation of the next possible step until the whole square can be completed.
They also like questions with multiple steps and many possible answers: question 2 is one such. The approach here is to add the two given numbers (300 + 600 = 900) and then subtract the 900 from the total of 1200. The two numbers have to add up to 300 and could be any combination. Taken step by step this is not difficult but as I have stated before, many children find it very difficult indeed to work through to an answer if it requires more than one step.
Whilst some children may well still be starting with the given number and then counting on with their fingers others will be using more sophisticated methods such as:
A second, quick revision of counting on. Whilst some children may well still be starting with the given number and then counting on with their fingers others will be using more sophisticated methods such as:
to count on 9, add 10 and subtract 1
to count on 11, add 10 and add 1
to count on 8, add 10 and subtract 2
to count on 12, add 10 and add 2
Four rules work has to start somewhere, so why not with the very easiest addition: adding one to a single digit. These activities should only be done on paper when children have had plenty of experience of counting and adding using counters, lego bricks etc.