This interactive excel file deals with place value of number and with multiplication and division by 10, 100 and 1000. The interactive sheets begin with the student being able to reveal the word form for a set of large numbers. Then there are sheets which show sets of integers or decimals which are to be multiplied...

This interactive excel file deals with column addition of integers, money and decimals. The first interactive sheet shows pairs of numbers to be added and students can click beneath the columns to check each stage of their working. The next sheet shows the addition of...

This series of excel sheets look at column addition of whole numbers and money.

The first interactive sheet contains four questions on adding three- and two-digit numbers. Answers can be revealed and a new series of questions can be generated at the click of a button.

The second sheet contains four...

This selection of spreadsheets, designed by the Primary National Strategies to aid teaching and learning, tackles addition and subtraction in a variety of ways.

[b]Number line counting[/b] shows a number line of ten places, numbers between 0 and 99 can be chosen. The numbers on the line can be hidden or...

This series of seventeen interactive excel sheets, aimed at students in Year Five, look at a variety of addition and subtraction questions.

The first sheet helps to demonstrate the count up method for subtraction....

This series of fourteen interactive excel sheets aimed at students in Year Four look at a variety of integer addition and subtraction methods and questions.

The first sheet shows a combination of numbers to be added...

This series of seventeen interactive excel sheets look at a variety of addition and subtraction questions aimed at Year Six students.

In the first sheet students have to select the correct method for an addition...

This series of excel sheets, aimed at students in Year Three, look at integer addition.

In the first interactive sheet students have to complete an addition sentence using a set of given numbers. Students can check if...

This cross-curricular computing / ICT activity helps children to understand decomposition. They choose a poem and create an animation using Scratch; this encourages them to think deeply about the poem, and to explore the tools available. Children break the poem into pieces (decomposition), then plan the animation...

Area Builder gives students the opportunity to build any shape and explore the relationship between the area of a shape and the length of its perimeter. The “Game Screen” contains two kinds of challenges: Build a shape and Find the area. There are different levels of increasing difficulty. The teacher notes give...

This excel file has four interactive sheets dealing with the order of operations. The first shows groups of calculations involving addition, subtraction and multiplication where the answers can be revealed. The second interactive sheet is similar, but it deals with...

A set of simple scratch ‘debugging’ activities that children can use to apply their understanding of programs and codes.  Children are shown a series of faulty programs which are based around the water cycle.  They are then supported to use logical reasoning to locate and fix the bugs within them.  Notes for...

This is a classroom-based activity from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute that allows students to explore the features of two bacterial pathogen genomes. The aim of this activity is to highlight the role of different genetic components in two closely related subspecies of Salmonella enterica, and to identify how...

This cross curricular activity includes science content from Year Four of the primary curriculum. It introduces programming and control, linked to the outside world through sensors - in this case, the computer's built-in microphone or a peripheral microphone. Programs are written using Scratch (online or offline)...

Climate Change: It’s In Our Hands is a classroom-based board game which helps pupils in upper key stage two (7 to 11 years) explore and discuss the complexities of the global climate emergency and test out possible strategies to mitigate it.

Over four rounds, groups of pupils invest in actions that...