Math
Math for 3rd
Number sense, calculation, fractions, geometry and reasoning resources for grades Pre-K through 6.
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Manipulatives Audit & Classroom Setup
What manipulatives every primary classroom should have, why concrete materials matter even in upper KS2, and how to audit and refresh existing stock. Includes minimum kit by year group, storage strategies, and the 'manipulatives are for the children who need them' problem.
Maths CPD Pack for Class Teachers
Six 20-minute CPD sessions for Maths Leads to deliver to class teachers — covering fluency teaching, manipulatives use, reasoning prompts, calculation policy, addressing maths anxiety in staff, and the 'concrete-pictorial-abstract' approach. Designed for twilight INSETs.
Maths Lead Handover Document
When a Maths Lead leaves a school, the next person inherits chaos by default. This handover template captures everything — calculation policy, scheme used, manipulative stock, MTC and SATs data, CPD history, key children. Mirrors the music, assessment, and English Lead handover docs.
Maths Lead — Professional Reading List
Professional books every primary Maths Lead should read — the research-grounded titles on fluency, reasoning, mastery, manipulatives, and addressing maths anxiety. Honest about which are essential.
Maths Monitoring Walk — Prompt Sheet
What to look for during a 10-minute classroom monitoring walk for maths. Specific prompts for fluency starters, main lessons, manipulatives use, and reasoning culture. Designed for Maths Leads doing learning walks without it feeling like inspection.
Primary Maths Manipulatives — What Schools Actually Buy
The maths manipulatives every primary classroom should have — counters, ten-frames, place value cards, number rods, fraction strips, and the higher-end items worth investing in. With honest notes on which ones earn their keep and which sit in cupboards.
Whole-School Maths Progression — Pre-K to Grade 6
How maths skills develop across primary — number sense from Pre-K through KS2 fractions, decimals, ratio, and algebra. Year-by-year skill expectations across number, calculation, fractions, geometry, statistics, and reasoning. The reference document a Maths Lead returns to most often.
Calculation Policy — Decision Guide
What a calculation policy is, why every school needs one, and how to choose or write one. Includes implementation timeline and how to ensure consistency across the school.
Calculation Policy: Addition & Subtraction Y1-Y6
A complete written-methods progression for addition and subtraction across Y1-Y6, with worked examples at each stage. For teachers building or refreshing a school-wide calculation policy.
Fluency vs Reasoning — A Maths Lead's Guide
Why fluency and reasoning are both essential, what they actually mean, and how to build each across the school. Includes specific routines for each (e.g. number talks, fluency starters, reasoning prompts). Settles the staffroom debate about 'spending too much time on times tables' vs 'not doing enough word problems'.
Number Bonds Poster Pack — to 10, 20 and 100
Three classroom posters showing all the number bonds to 10, to 20, and to 100. Visual, clear and ready to display.
Addition & Subtraction Methods Knowledge Organiser
A KS1/KS2 reference for written and mental addition and subtraction methods — number bonds, column addition, column subtraction with borrowing, and key vocabulary.
Cross-Number Puzzle Pack — Printable Number Crosswords
Printable cross-number puzzles — like crosswords but with numbers. Three levels: KS1 sums, KS2 arithmetic, and KS2 multi-step. Includes how-to-play guide and answers.
Logic Puzzles Pack — 15 Puzzles for Primary
15 printable logic puzzles across three levels — beginner (KS1), intermediate (lower KS2), and harder (upper KS2). Includes grid puzzles, lateral thinking, and elimination problems.
Money & Financial Literacy Knowledge Organiser
A KS1/KS2 money reference — UK coins and notes, adding and giving change, profit and loss, budgeting basics, and the difference between needs and wants.
Sudoku for Kids — 4×4 and 6×6 Grids
Printable Sudoku puzzles in two sizes — 4×4 for KS1 and 6×6 for lower KS2. Includes how-to-play guide and solutions. Great for logic, problem-solving, and wet break.
Time Knowledge Organiser
A KS1/KS2 time reference — reading analogue and digital clocks, 12 and 24-hour time, converting between units, calculating time intervals, and using a timeline.
Times Tables Strategy — Pre-MTC and Beyond
How to build whole-school times tables fluency leading to the Y4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) and beyond. Covers the year-by-year teaching sequence, daily routines, digital tool options, and what to do for children who fall behind. Strategic, not just 'practice harder'.
10× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 10× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
11× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 11× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
12× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 12× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
2D Shape Properties Poster
Properties of common 2D shapes — sides, vertices, lines of symmetry. With names of polygons up to 10 sides.
2× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 2× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
3× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 3× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
4× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 4× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
5× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 5× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
6× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 6× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
7× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 7× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
8× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 8× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
9× Times Table Worksheet
Ready-made printable practice for the 9× times table — 36 questions across multiplication, random-order, and related division facts. Print and go.
Fractions Visual Reference — Halves to Twelfths
A visual fractions reference showing halves, thirds, quarters, fifths and so on as bars and pies. Equivalent fractions made visible.
Geometry & Shape Knowledge Organiser
A KS2 knowledge organiser on 2D and 3D shapes — properties, types of angles, symmetry, parallel and perpendicular lines, coordinates, and area and perimeter.
Measurement Knowledge Organiser
A KS2 measurement reference — units of length, mass, capacity, time, and converting between them. Includes common conversions and tips for reading scales.
Multiplication Fact Families
From three numbers, write four related facts (2 multiplication, 2 division). Builds inverse-operation fluency.
Multiplication Square (12×12) Poster
A clear, large-print 12×12 multiplication square for classroom display. The reference every primary maths classroom needs.
Times Tables Reference Card — 1× to 12×
The complete times tables 1× to 12×, with tricks for memorising the hardest ones. Print, laminate, give one to every child.
Times Tables Reward Grid
A printable times tables reward grid for pupils to colour in each times table as they pass their oral test — 12×12 grid with table headers. Visual progress tracker for the whole multiplication journey.
Times Tables Snakes & Ladders
Printable snakes and ladders board game with a maths twist — players must answer a times table question correctly before moving. Includes question cards for ×2 through ×12. For 2–4 players.
Bar Models Reference Poster
Single classroom poster showing the four main bar-model types: whole-parts, comparison, equal groups, ratio. Display reference for KS2 maths classrooms.
Bar Models — Introduction (Year 3-4)
A clear introduction to bar models for KS2 children. Concrete-pictorial-abstract approach, with worked examples and 24 practice problems.
Data and Graphs — Bar Charts
Read, interpret and create bar charts. Vertical and horizontal, with three sample data sets.
Division Basics
Introduction to division as sharing and grouping. Builds from arrays to facts.
Estimation Practice
Practice rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000, then use estimation in real-world calculation problems.
Fraction Strips — Visual Template
Printable fraction strips for halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths and twelfths.
Fraction Wall Poster
Visual fraction wall showing equivalences from wholes to twelfths. The fastest way for KS2 children to grasp equivalent fractions.
Fractions — Knowledge Organiser (KS2)
One-page reference for all KS2 fractions: equivalent fractions, comparing, ordering, adding/subtracting, multiplying, fractions of amounts, mixed numbers and improper fractions.
Mixed Times Tables — Y4 Check Style
25-question mixed multiplication check styled like the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC). Six-second-per-question pace builds fluency for the real assessment.
Money Word Problems
Real-world money problems involving adding, subtracting and multiplying with dollars and cents.
Multi-Digit Addition — Column Method
3- and 4-digit addition using the standard algorithm. Carrying practiced and modeled.
Multiplication & Division Knowledge Organiser
A KS2 knowledge organiser covering multiplication and division — times tables, short and long multiplication, short and long division, factors, multiples, and primes.
Multiplication Grid Practice (1–12)
Two blank 12×12 grids for timed times-tables practice.
Number Puzzles & Brain Teasers — KS2 Pack
20 number puzzles and brain teasers for KS2 — magic squares, number chains, and classic teaser problems. Solutions included. Great for extension work, wet break, or morning starters.
Place Value Poster (KS2)
Wall poster showing place value from millions through to thousandths. Reference for every KS2 maths lesson involving large numbers, decimals or rounding.
Place Value to 1000
Identify hundreds, tens and ones in 3-digit numbers. Includes partitioning and ordering.
Place Value — Knowledge Organiser (KS2)
One-page reference for all KS2 place value: digits, columns, rounding, comparing, ordering, and decimals. Aligns with Autumn Block 1 in most primary maths schemes.
Rounding to the Nearest 10 and 100
Round 2- and 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. With number-line visual support.
Statistics Knowledge Organiser
A KS2 statistics reference — types of chart, reading scales, mean/median/mode/range, tally charts, frequency tables, and interpreting data.
Year 4 Reasoning & Problem Solving Pack
30 mixed reasoning questions for Year 4, covering place value, four operations, fractions, time, and measure. Three difficulty stages — fluency to deeper reasoning.