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Mental maths worksheets
Free worksheets: Mental maths, KS2
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Year 3 mental maths test
How quickly can your child complete this mental maths test? Improve their mental maths skills with this series of 10 timed questions.
Year 4 mental maths test
Get some early SATs preparation in with the help of this timed mental maths test, with questions aimed at students in year 4.
Year 5 mental maths test
Practice makes perfect! The timed questions in this mental maths test will help your child improve their ability to make quick and accurate calculations - an ideal way to prepare for SATs.
Year 6 mental maths test
Practise mental maths skills for Year 6 with this timed test. Read out the questions to your child, giving them a few seconds to answer each one, then score their results with the answers provided.
Mental multiplication and division of decimals
Use your knowledge of times tables to work out these sums involving multiplying and dividing decimals.
Key Stage 2 - 2024 Maths SATs Papers
Download the official 2024 KS2 SATs maths papers for free from TheSchoolRun to help your child practise for the Y6 assessments at home.
Key Stage 1 - 2024 Maths SATs Papers
Help your child prepare for the optional end-of-Y2 maths KS1 SATs with some at-home practice. These 2024 Y2 SATs Maths past papers are the official Department for Education papers used in schools.
Key Stage 1 - 2023 Maths SATs Papers
Help your child prepare for the end-of-Y2 maths KS1 SATs with some at-home practice. These 2023 Y2 SATs Maths past papers are the official Department for Education papers used in schools.
Mental calculation: all four operations
A Year 5 mental maths worksheet created by a primary school teacher to help children practise at home.
Can you work out the following in your head?
Can you work out the following in your head?
Mental multiplication problems: Y3, Y4, Y5
A teacher-made maths worksheet on mental multiplication problems for Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 children with a football theme.
By the time they enter Year 5 children should be very confident in all times tables. They should also know their division facts for each times table (if 6 x 3 = 18 then 18 ÷ 6 = 3). Use these mental maths questions to test your child.
By the time they enter Year 5 children should be very confident in all times tables. They should also know their division facts for each times table (if 6 x 3 = 18 then 18 ÷ 6 = 3). Use these mental maths questions to test your child.
Maths card games for KS1 and KS2
Playing with cards might seem old-fashioned in our screen-loving age, but maths card games will help your child become fluent and confident with numbers – without them even realising they're exercising their maths thinking brain. From number bonds to fractions and probability, try some of our traditional or adapted card games to practise basic maths concepts.
Non-verbal reasoning patterns
A non-verbal reasoning worksheet created by an educational expert, which provides questions and answers for non-verbal reasoning patterns (or sequences).
Mental multiplication and division of decimals
Use your knowledge of times tables to work out these sums involving multiplying and dividing decimals.
Mental maths checker: doubles and halves of two- and three-digit numbers
Can you double and halve these two- and three-digit numbers? Colour in a star every time you get 10/10!
Mental subtraction speed cards
Cut out the speed cards and turn them face down on the table. Pick up two cards. Take the smallest number away from the largest and say the answer, as quickly as you can!
Matching number bonds to 20
Can you find the pairs of numbers that make 20? This is a great way to practise all your number bonds to 20.
All in my head addition and subtraction game
Cut out and assemble the number dice. Two players take it in turns to throw one die, then the other. Each player adds (or subtracts) the two numbers thrown, then writes down the answer on the scorecard (next page) and asks the other person to check it. The player with the most correct answers after ten goes each is the winner.
Mixed-up mental maths
How quickly can you answer these mental maths questions? Get an adult to time you! On your marks, get set...
All in my head mental addition and subtraction game
This is a challenging game to help you practise adding and subtracting without writing down.
Know your number facts speed quiz
Ask a grown-up to time how long it takes you to say the answer to these questions. Then write some questions yourself and test an adult!
Double or half number card game
Turn the cards face down on the table. Players must take turns picking up a number card and a word card, complete the calculation it suggests and write the answer. The winner is the player who writes the most correct answers after five turns.
Double me Memory Game
The object of the game is to pick up a number and its double – that’s a pair! If you don’t pick up a pair you put the cards back on the table face down and continue to take turns. Players who pick pairs take them off the table and keep them. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
Year 1 mental maths bingo
Add an element of competition (and fun!) to mental maths practice with our Year 1 bingo game. Your child might even surprise you by asking to play again (and again...)! Cut-out boards and dabbers are included, simply print out and play.
Year 6 mental maths test
Practise mental maths skills for Year 6 with this timed test. Read out the questions to your child, giving them a few seconds to answer each one, then score their results with the answers provided.
Year 5 mental maths test
Practice makes perfect! The timed questions in this mental maths test will help your child improve their ability to make quick and accurate calculations - an ideal way to prepare for SATs.