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Calculating with length
Ready for some calculations with length? Rulers at the ready...
Reading scales and solving problems
Can you read the scales and solve these potato-weight problems?
Calculating perimeters
To find the perimeter of a shape you must add up the lengths of each of the sides. Can your child calculate the perimeters of these common shapes?
Calculating volume
Volume is the amount of 3D space that an object occupies. Volume can be measured in cubes. Calculate the number of cubes in each shape to work out the volume.
Estimate volume
Look at these containers. Which do you think has the greatest volume? (Think about their real-life size by considering what is inside.) Put them in order from smallest to largest volume. Estimate the volume in cm3, then calculate the volume to see how accurate you were.
Make a spinning top game
This activity encourages your child to explore probability, by answering questions on some given results and then making their own spinning top.
Decimal places rounding game
Use this game to generate numbers and then round them to two decimal places.
Understanding column addition
This worksheet will give your child practice in carrying out column addition with three- and four-digit numbers.
Estimating weight
This worksheet will help your child to record estimates and readings from weighing scales.
Counting to 10: matching numbers and objects
Once your child can count to ten they need to practise counting objects and writing numbers. This simple matching activity is suitable for Reception children.
Measurement: using correct vocabulary
Mathematical vocabulary can be confusing, so help your child master some measurement terms with this activity. Cut out the words and attach them to the animals. Which animal is the largest? The lightest? The tallest?
Guess the shape game
A game to make and play! Help your child to stick and cut out the shapes and then take turns to describe a shape for the other to guess. Start with three or four shapes, and progress as your child becomes more and more skilled. Brilliant for helping children identify the main features of 2D shapes
Learn the names of shapes
This Year 1, Key Stage 2 maths download will help your child identify shapes in the world around them, as well as introducing the concept of tessellating shapes.
Make reasonable estimates
This mathematics worksheet will help your child to estimate, measure using a ruler and gain an understanding of centimetres.
Chunking practice
A worksheet to encourage your child to use their knowledge of chunking when dividing in order to work out whether a number sentence is correct or not.
Two-digit addition practice
An activity involving adding two-digit numbers in order to determine whether a number sentence is correct.
Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s
Incomplete number sequences for your child to fill in, helping them practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Understanding the language of probability
This activity encourages children to toss a coin several times and then record the data in order to test a hypothesis about probability.
Estimate and measure time
This worksheet encourages your child to estimate how long it takes them to do certain things throughout the day. They then need to time themselves doing these things and compare the results.
Understanding rounding rules
This worksheet gives a list of decimal numbers to round to the nearest whole number. It also gives tips on how to do this.
Metric measurements
This mathematics worksheet will help your child to practise matching the full names and abbreviations of common standards of measure with the things we use to measure.
Describing length
Long, short, tall and wide... Help your child use correct measurement vocabulary with this worksheet.
Comparing measures: describing objects using the correct vocabulary
A worksheet for budding artists! Can you draw a tall flower and a taller tree? What about a small ant? Children will be asked to produce a piece of artwork using the description and then improve their knowledge of correct measurement vocabulary by describing their picture back to others.
Practise estimating measurements
Practise estimating measurements is a Key Stage 1 worksheet and it will help your child improve their maths skills by making some muffins.
Practise measuring capacity
This mathematics download will help your child to practise the vocabulary associated with capacity, eg. 'This container holds more water than that container'. It is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils and a parent or carer should help the child.