Maths

Use large counters, blocks and paper before symbols. Revisit a lesson until the child can show and explain the idea. Numbers grow from 0–10 to 20, then 100; these pages are not a one-sitting course.

These are short sessions to revisit, not a one-day course. Follow the child's readiness and school teaching.

These pages introduce the Year 1 strands. A larger varied practice bank, repeated calculation and measurement sessions, numeral writing to 100 and teacher observation are still needed. This is not proof of secure fluency or a completed annual scheme.

These are our reference keys, not official DfE numbering. Each link identifies a teaching introduction, not a completed curriculum requirement or assessed mastery.

Count forwards and backwards across 100 from different starting points.

M-N1

• Touch, count, stop!
• An empty plate: zero
• Count across the tens

Represent, read and write numerals to 100; count in twos, fives and tens.

M-N2

• Match a number to a group
• Ten and some more
• Count across the tens
• Count pairs in twos
• Count in fives and tens

Compare quantities using equal, more, fewer, most and least.

M-N3

• More, fewer or the same?

Find one more and one less.

M-N4

• One more
• One less

Read and write number names from one to twenty.

M-N5

• Numbers have names

Model multiplication and division through equal groups, arrays and sharing.

M-MD

• Count pairs in twos
• Count in fives and tens
• Equal groups and rows
• Share fairly

Build number bonds and related subtraction facts within twenty.

M-AS2

• Parts make a whole
• Ways to make ten
• Use ten to help

Read, write and interpret addition, subtraction and equality signs.

M-AS1

• Put together: add
• Take away: subtract

Add and subtract within twenty, including zero.

M-AS3

• Put together: add
• Take away: subtract
• Use ten to help

Solve one-step and missing-number problems using concrete models.

M-AS4

• Find the missing part

Find a half of objects, shapes and quantities.

M-F1

• Two equal parts: halves

Find a quarter of objects, shapes and quantities.

M-F2

• Four equal parts: quarters

Compare lengths, heights, mass, capacity and time.

M-ME1

• Longer, shorter, taller
• Heavier or lighter?
• Full, empty and how much fits
• First, next, later

Measure and record these quantities through practical work.

M-ME2

• Longer, shorter, taller
• Heavier or lighter?
• Full, empty and how much fits
• First, next, later

Recognise the value of coins and notes.

M-ME3

• Coins and notes have values

Order events using everyday time language.

M-ME4

• First, next, later

Use days, weeks, months and years.

M-ME5

• Days, weeks and months

Read and draw o'clock and half-past times.

M-ME6

• Read o'clock
• Read half past

Recognise and name common flat and solid shapes.

M-G1

• Meet flat shapes
• Shapes we can hold

Describe position, direction and quarter, half, three-quarter and whole turns.

M-G2

• Move and turn