primary maths

Activity 1: Tessellation Suitable for: Year 2 to Year 6 Learning Focus: Identify and use the properties of simple and more complex shapes to explain tessellation To be able to create a shape that tessellates and explain why it does   Tessellations are a fun maths and art… Read More

Maths Crossword activities: Used for years by teachers, all you have to do is print off a few square grids – choose 4 x 4 for the younger or less able pupils, up to 8 x 8 for the older and write the tables you want to test down one side and the multipliers in a mixed order across the top. It’s a great filler or as a homework challenge, especially if you ask the pupils to time themselves. Read More

Celebrate Black History Month this October in your Maths lesson with some simple activities from Dave Lewis. Read More

One of the most difficult concepts for a child in mathematics is to work out the sum they need to do in order to find the answer to a question that’s set in words. These activities explore the concept of algebra and develop it so that you can use it with KS1 children, right the way through up to Year 6. Read More

With the first aim of the new national curriculum for Primary maths being to 'become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics' Peter Clarke has pulled together some simple paired games to help develop children’s fluency in the recall of addition and subtraction number facts and the multiplication tables. Read More