This chapter covers three related skills: counting the sides and corners of a flat shape so the shape names itself, telling a square from an oblong, and finding a line of symmetry by picturing the fold. Six shapes are named and described: circle, triangle, square, oblong, pentagon and hexagon. Pupils are taught to mark a starting side before counting so they do not go round the shape twice, and to check by counting the corners, since sides and corners always come in matching numbers. The central idea is that a triangle does not have to point upwards. Most Year 2 children learn the shape from a single picture and reject any triangle that is turned or has sides of different lengths, so this is taught head on rather than assumed. Pupils are also shown the number of lines of symmetry in a square, an oblong, a triangle and a circle, and told that having no line of symmetry is a perfectly normal answer. Includes a worked explanation, a tips page, common misconceptions addressed directly (thinking a triangle must point up, calling every four-sided shape a square, counting the same side twice, drawing a diagonal line of symmetry on an oblong), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from naming shapes to worded reasoning problems. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. A short note for the adult explains why the turned triangle question is the one worth testing at home. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 geometry, properties of shapes (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

This chapter covers the difference between a flat shape and a solid one, the names of six solids (cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder, cone and pyramid), what faces, edges and corners actually mean, and which flat shapes turn up on the faces of a solid. Each solid is tied to a real object a child will recognise: a dice, a cereal box, a ball, a tin, a party hat, a tent. The central idea is hidden faces. A drawing of a cube shows three faces and hides three more, so children counting from a picture almost always answer 3 instead of 6. This is taught directly, with a page showing seen, hidden and total, and a strategy of turning a real object while touching each face. Includes a worked explanation, a tips page on telling an edge from a face and a cube from a cuboid, common misconceptions addressed head on (counting only the visible faces, calling a cuboid a cube, mixing up a circle and a sphere, counting edges as corners), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from naming solids to worded reasoning problems. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. A short note for the adult explains why a real box in the hand fixes the hidden-faces problem faster than any explanation. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 geometry, properties of shapes (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

This chapter covers three ways of showing information: keeping count with tally marks in bundles of five, reading a pictogram where one picture stands for one thing, and reading a block diagram or bar chart. Pupils then use those charts to answer questions, including totals, comparisons and how many more. Two ideas are taught head on. The first is the scale. If the numbers up the side of a chart go up in 2s, a bar reaching the third line is 6, not 3, and counting lines instead of reading the scale is the most common chart error at this age. The second is that how many more means subtract, not simply give the larger number. Includes a worked explanation, a tips page on reading the title first and using a finger or ruler to track across from a bar to the numbers, common misconceptions addressed directly (counting tally lines one by one, assuming every line is worth one, reading the wrong bar, answering a comparison question with the bigger number), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from reading tallies to worded reasoning problems. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. A short note for the adult explains why pointing at the scale before every question fixes most mistakes. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 statistics (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

This chapter covers four related skills: describing a position using both a column and a row, naming quarter, half, three-quarter and full turns, telling clockwise from anticlockwise, and continuing a repeating pattern by spotting the group that repeats. Position vocabulary is taught alongside the grid work: above, below, left, right, between and next to. Two ideas are taught head on. The first is that a position always needs two directions. Saying a counter is in the second column tells you nothing about the row, so pupils are pushed to give both every time. The second is that a half turn is two quarter turns, not a quarter of a circle, which is a common slip once the language of fractions arrives. Includes a worked explanation, a tips page suggesting pupils stand up and make the turns with their own bodies rather than reading arrows, common misconceptions addressed directly (giving only one direction, mixing up clockwise and anticlockwise, misjudging the size of a half turn, copying the last shape in a pattern instead of the whole repeating group), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from naming turns to worded reasoning problems. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. A short note for the adult flags the hardest question in the chapter, that three quarter turns one way finish in the same place as one quarter turn the other way, and suggests walking it out on the floor. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 geometry, position and direction (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

An introduction to multiplication for Year 2: the 2, 5 and 10 times tables taught through equal groups and arrays, with 30 practice questions. Rest of the description: This chapter builds the concept of multiplication from the ground up, starting with equal groups (three plates of five biscuits) and showing how the same fact can be written as repeated addition, in words, or as a times fact. Arrays are used throughout so pupils can see why 2 × 5 and 5 × 2 give the same answer, halving what needs to be memorised. Covers the 2, 5 and 10 times tables in full, with pattern spotting (the 2s are always even, the 5s end in 5 or 0, the 10s end in 0) and strategies such as doubling for the 2s and halving the 10s to find the 5s. Includes a worked explanation, common misconceptions addressed directly (children often read “×” as “and” or count groups instead of the total), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from array-reading to worded reasoning problems. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 multiplication and division (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

ear 2 fractions: halves, thirds and quarters, taught through shapes and amounts, with the equal-parts rule at the centre. 30 questions. Rest of the description: This chapter starts with the one rule every fraction depends on: the parts must be exactly equal, or the name doesn’t apply. From there it covers reading and writing fractions (top number, bottom number, what each means), finding a fraction of a shape by colouring equal parts, and finding a fraction of an amount by sharing into equal groups, linking fractions directly back to division. Shows visually why two quarters equal one half, and works through the common trap of assuming a bigger bottom number means a bigger piece. Includes a worked explanation, common misconceptions addressed directly (children often call any two pieces “halves” regardless of size, or read one third as “one and three”), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from shape-based questions to worded reasoning problems that compare fractions of different amounts. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 fractions (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF.

This chapter introduces division through two distinct ideas: sharing (twelve sweets dealt equally between three children) and grouping (twelve sweets, four to a bag, how many bags). Both use the same divide sign, but children need to recognise which question is being asked before they can answer it. Links division directly to multiplication through fact families, showing how one array (3 rows of 4) generates four related facts: 3×4, 4×3, 12÷3 and 12÷4, so pupils can use times tables they already know rather than starting from scratch. Remainders are introduced simply, as “how many left over” once equal sharing has run out. Includes a worked explanation, common misconceptions addressed directly (children often confuse “how many each” with “how many groups”, or try to force an answer that doesn’t share evenly), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from concrete sharing to worded reasoning problems. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 multiplication and division (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

This chapter covers three related skills: reading a weighing scale that goes up in steps rather than ones, reading a measuring jug in millilitres and litres, and reading a thermometer in degrees, including temperatures below freezing. Grams versus kilograms and millilitres versus litres are taught through everyday comparisons (an apple versus a cat, a teaspoon versus a bottle of water), and pupils are shown how to work out the value of each mark on a scale before reading it, rather than assuming every mark is worth one. Includes a worked explanation, common misconceptions addressed directly (assuming a taller or wider container always holds more, mixing grams and kilograms in one sum, leaving the degree symbol off a temperature), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from straightforward reading to worded reasoning problems. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 measurement (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

This chapter starts with the eight British coins from 1p to £2, tackling directly the trap children fall into first: bigger coins aren’t always worth more (the 5p is smaller than the 2p, the £1 is smaller than the 50p). From there it covers making the same amount different ways, adding a handful of coins by starting with the largest, and finding change by counting on rather than subtracting. Includes a worked explanation, common misconceptions addressed directly (children often count the number of coins rather than their value, or mix pounds and pence in one sum), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from straightforward coin recognition to worded reasoning problems involving change and comparison. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 measurement (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

This chapter targets the single most common measuring mistake head on: lining an object up with the 1 instead of the 0. Once that’s secure, it moves through reading a ruler in centimetres, knowing when to use centimetres versus metres (a pencil versus a door, a book versus a classroom), and comparing two lengths to find the difference. Includes a worked explanation, common misconceptions addressed directly (starting from the wrong mark, forgetting to write the unit, mixing centimetres and metres in the same sum), and 30 questions across three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from reading a ruler to worded reasoning problems involving comparison and unit conversion. Answers included, with a star chart for pupils to track progress and a confidence check-in at the end. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 measurement (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

This chapter teaches pupils to add and subtract two-digit numbers by splitting each number into tens and ones, working out each part separately, then joining the answers back together (for example, 34 + 23 becomes 30+20 and 4+3, joined to make 57). It also covers jumping in tens along a number line for quick mental addition and subtraction. Includes a worked explanation with visual block models, a tips and common-mistakes section addressing the errors children typically make with this method, and 30 practice questions split into three sections: warm up, getting stronger and challenge, moving from straightforward sums to worded reasoning problems. Answers are included, along with a star chart for pupils to track their own progress and a confidence check-in at the end. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2 addition and subtraction (ages 6 to 7). Supplied as a printable PDF. Suitable for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, tutoring or home learning.

This chapter targets the Year 2 addition and subtraction objectives, building from simple number facts through to two-digit calculations, with problems sequenced so pupils meet each skill before moving to the next. Includes mental strategies, column methods where age-appropriate, missing number problems, and word problems that put the maths into context. Written to consolidate understanding rather than rush through content, so it works well for whole-class teaching, small-group intervention, or one-to-one tutoring. Written by a qualified teacher with over ten years’ classroom experience, aligned throughout to the UK National Curriculum for Year 2. Supplied as a printable PDF, so it can be photocopied for classroom sets or used digitally.

Year 2 number bonds worksheets for maths practice, helping pupils recall and use number bonds confidently through clear, engaging activities. This resource gives Year 2 pupils focused practice with number bonds and is ideal for reinforcing key addition and subtraction skills. What’s included: Number bonds activities Addition and subtraction practice Clear, child-friendly worksheets Varied questions for repeated practice Printable PDF resource Perfect for Year 2 maths lessons, independent work, homework, revision, intervention and tutoring.

Year 2 counting in steps worksheets for maths practice, including counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s. This resource is designed to help Year 2 pupils practise counting in steps and develop confidence with number sequences. What’s included: Counting forwards in 2s, 5s and 10s Counting backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s Number sequence activities Practice questions Clear, child-friendly layouts Printable PDF worksheets Perfect for Year 2 maths lessons, independent work, homework, revision, intervention and tutoring.

Year 2 Maths: Tens and Ones Help Year 2 pupils develop their understanding of place value with this engaging Tens and Ones resource. Pupils will practise identifying tens and ones, representing numbers using tens and ones, and understanding the value of each digit in a two-digit number. This resource includes: Clear explanations of tens and ones Visual examples to support understanding Guided practice Independent questions Activities suitable for classroom learning, homework or tutoring Suitable for Year 2 / Ages 6–7 and aligned with the UK primary maths curriculum

Year 2 maths resource for telling the time with simple explanations, clear visuals, worked examples and practice questions. Ideal for classroom use, homework or revision. What’s included: • Simple explanations of telling the time • Clear visual examples • Worked examples to help pupils understand each concept • Practice questions to reinforce learning • Suitable for Year 2 pupils This resource is designed to help children understand telling the time before putting their knowledge into practice. The combination of simple theory, visuals and structured questions makes it suitable for independent practice, classroom activities or revision.