We provide world class resources and training for teachers of all phases. Our forever free schemes of learning span from Reception to Post 16 GCSE resit. Short quizzes and end of term assessments that compliment our SOL are also available for free.
Are worksheet sit alongside our small steps guidance for Y1 to Y8. These are available on tes or through a subscription to White Rose Maths.
Join us on our journey #MathsEveryoneCan
We provide world class resources and training for teachers of all phases. Our forever free schemes of learning span from Reception to Post 16 GCSE resit. Short quizzes and end of term assessments that compliment our SOL are also available for free.
Are worksheet sit alongside our small steps guidance for Y1 to Y8. These are available on tes or through a subscription to White Rose Maths.
Join us on our journey #MathsEveryoneCan
We have created a few bonus problems for you to use this week with your KS2 classes. We hope they are useful. As always post your classes solutions on twitter tagging @whiterosemaths. We still have some prizes to give away.
Good luck!
Thank you to everyone who are using our new schemes of learning. We are really pleased with the response and grateful for all the feedback.
Over the last few months we have been working hard on producing new assessments to align with the new schemes. We have listened to feedback from teachers and schools and tried to respond to what they were telling us.
The main change is that the assessments now cover related objectives from previous year groups material. So, for example our Y6 assessment does not just cover the Y6 objectives – which is what we had previously done. Instead it now covers content from other year groups too. We have done this after speaking to schools and leaders and we also recognise this reflects SATs assessments.
We hope these assessments are useful for you and your students. Writing assessments is always a difficult task but we have tried to write questions that will help you identify strengths that students have and areas that need additional work.
Please take a little time to read this document as it contains guidance on how to get the best out of the assessments.
As always, we would be delighted to receive feedback from you. We always look to improve the work we are doing and we appreciate whatever comments you may have.
The White Rose Maths Team
Thank you to everyone who are using our new schemes of learning. We are really pleased with the response and grateful for all the feedback.
Over the last few months we have been working hard on producing new assessments to align with the new schemes. We have listened to feedback from teachers and schools and tried to respond to what they were telling us.
The main change is that the assessments now cover related objectives from previous year groups material. So, for example our Y6 assessment does not just cover the Y6 objectives – which is what we had previously done. Instead it now covers content from other year groups too. We have done this after speaking to schools and leaders and we also recognise this reflects SATs assessments.
We hope these assessments are useful for you and your students. Writing assessments is always a difficult task but we have tried to write questions that will help you identify strengths that students have and areas that need additional work.
Please take a little time to read this document as it contains guidance on how to get the best out of the assessments.
As always, we would be delighted to receive feedback from you. We always look to improve the work we are doing and we appreciate whatever comments you may have.
The White Rose Maths Team
Today's problems are ones that involve reasoning and problem solving with the numbers. There are two problems for KS1 and two for KS2.
In KS1 problem children have to use a number line to work out the size of the interval and then locate a particular number. Children then have to work out the highest and lowest numbers you can make given three digit cards. Version 2 of the Y2 problems has a slightly less demanding problem Q1 that might be good as a warm up.
At KS2 children also need to find intervals on a number line, but the problem is a little more involved.. The second problem should be tacked systematically.
Every day in March the White Rose Maths Hub is aiming to put out a question of the day.
Tweet us @WRMathsHub a picture of your children's answers for a chance to win a prize.
For the month of March, each day we publish some reasoning and problem solving questions for use with your classes.
Practice is crucial to maths success, and our questions are designed to support your daily routines.
We hope you enjoy the problems, don’t forget #MathsEveryoneCan
There are two problems for KS1 and three for KS2.
In the KS1 problems children have to use information to find the cost of particular items or length of strips of paper. Children could be encouraged to use strip diagrams or bar models to solve the problems.
At KS2 the problems involve fractions of amounts. Some of the questions are quite challenging. Again bar modelling can be used if you want to solve the majority of these problems. If you want more info on bar modelling feel free to email the Maths Hub.
Every day in March the White Rose Maths Hub is aiming to put out a question of the day.
Tweet us @WRMathsHub a picture of your children's answers for a chance to win a prize.
5 Topics to Revise for Key Stage 2 SATs
Since the White Rose Maths Hub began creating questions for Diagnostic Questions just a few months ago, there have been 337,221 answers given by primary school students all over the country. Perhaps more importantly, 116,437 of these answers have been incorrect.
So, with SATs on the horizon, we thought it would be a perfect time to reflect on five areas of mathematics that have proved particularly troubling to Key Stage 2 students. The five key areas are:
- Area and perimeter
- Angles
- Equivalent fractions and fractions of an amount
- Factors and multiples
- Percentages
For each of these areas we have provided some supporting resources that you could use with your classes to help overcome these difficulties, together with a mini 5 question quiz you could give your students to see if their misconceptions have been resolved.
We really hope you find this useful.
Craig and the White Rose Maths Hub team
This booklet contains over 50 problem solving questions suitable for KS3 and GCSE classes. These are the questions that we have been putting out each day in the run up to GCSE exams. The answers are also provided with each question.
There are problems that are suitable for foundation and higher and ones that are suitable for higher tier only.
We hope to release more questions like this over the course of next year that you can use on a regular basis with your classes including some open ended problems. Please keep a look out for our work.
In June 2016 we plan to release our new KS3 schemes of work. The schemes build on the work we have been doing within primary. We are keen to work with secondary schools next year who might be interested in implementing this KS3 scheme.
As always we welcome any feedback on the work we are doing and the materials that we are releasing.
Thank you for taking an interest in our work.
The White Rose Maths Hub Team
@WRMathsHub
We have created a calculation policy to help teachers introduce key concepts using a concrete-pictorial-abstract approach.
As always feedback is welcome.
The White Rose Maths Team