The baby dinosaurs are all out playing in the desert.
Can you help count them all?
Great practice at counting up to 10.
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Free Y4 maths worksheet: More about prisms
On this free maths worksheet is some pretty hard work concerned with prisms.
(A prism is a solid figure whose bases or ends have the same size and shape and are parallel to one another, and each of whose sides is a parallelogram.)
It is a good idea to try and collect a variety of prisms so that there properties can be explored in detail.
Look out for interesting shaped boxes eg toblerone packet is a triangular prism.
There are some interesting facts about prisms such as the number of faces is always two more than the number of edges on the end. Other facts are included on the answer page.
Free Y3 maths worksheet: Using triangles to make shapes
A simple idea which has a lot of maths attached to it. Find or make two right angled triangles (out of card). Then join them together to make a variety of other shapes. A parallelogram can be made as shown on the worksheet but there is another way to make a parallelogram. A good discussion point is that a parallelogram is a special kind of quadrilateral, just a s a rectangle is a special kind of quadrilateral. Hexagons can also be made: remember that a hexagon has six sides, but the do not have to be all equal (that is a regular hexagon). It’s a good idea to trace round the shapes that have been made.
Free Y2 maths worksheet: Making shapes using a pinboard
If you have not got a pin board then I would highly recommend making one – not only will it be really useful for shape work right through the primary years it could be a great project to do with your child.
This maths worksheet suggests making a four sided shape on the pinboard with an elastic band and then copying the shape onto the worksheet – not that easy for young children.
Free Y2 maths worksheet: making shapes using a pinboard (pg 2)
Free Y1 maths worksheet: Names of 2-D shapes
Another maths worksheet to help with recognising the names of simple 2-D shapes.
Another maths worksheet to help with recognising the names of simple 2-D shapes.
Four shapes are used: square, rectangle, triangle and circle. The idea is to join the shape to the name of the shape with a pencil line. Sit down with your child to do this and don’t be afraid to ask questions – how many sides does a triangle have? Why this that a rectangle and not a square? etc.
Maths game: Counting two lots of things (monkeys and gorillas)
Maths game: Counting two lots of things
Another great little game for counting two lots of things, up to 5.
Matilda’s looking for all the monkeys and gorillas in the forest.
Can you help her count them?
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Booster maths worksheet 5
Another page of typical SAT maths questions. Again questions 1 and 2 could have any number of possible answers and the key is to keep it simple. In both questions there is no need to be clever: answer with whole hundreds eg 200+ 200+ 400 as this will gain as many marks as 145 + 93 + 562 or any other correct answer and there is far more chance of making a slip up by making it difficult!
Maths game: Make 5
An extra bonus today as I felt in the mood to write a game. The first in our addition and subtraction series, where children are given a number and have to state what is needed to make it up to 5.
Dora Dino has 5 eggs somewhere. She can only see some of them, so can you help her work out how are needed to make 5.
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Maths vocabulary for Reception: Length
tall taller tallest
high higher highest
low lower lowest
wide wider widest
narrow narrower narrowest
Maths Vocabulary for Reception: Length
Words to do with length are all around us and it is an ideal subject to involve young children with. At this age standard units of measurement are not used, the important concepts are all to do with comparisons as well as understanding that shapes can have length, width and height. This is not a spelling list: more a list of words that children should have heard in a variety of contexts and words that they are beginning to use themselves to describe their world. Continue reading “Maths vocabulary for Reception: Length”
Booster maths worksheet 4
A similar maths worksheet to worksheet 3. Notice that questions 5 and 6 could have a considerable range of answers, all of which are correct. In question 6 the two numbers for the answer must have a difference of 61 ie the sum of the two numbers given. This is getting very close to the early algebra which children will study at their secondary schools.