Red
Time
Basic time facts
24hrs = 1 day 60 mins = 1 hour
30min = ½ hour 15 mins = ¼ hr
Read clock face – simple
times
Know date facts
Add on short number of days
in calendar
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
1 week = 7days 1 year = 365
days
1 month ≈ 4 weeks Days of
months
Addition & Subtraction
Counting on and back (more/less than
)
Know number bonds to 20
Addition of more than two digits
Column addition & subtraction (no
carry)
Count up to 100 to solve subtractions
Add up simple amounts of coins
Calculate simple change
John is twelve how old will
he be in 5 years?
Find the sum of 4 , 6 , 7 &
3
234 + 123
100 – 73
What is the cost of a pen at
23p and a pencil at 14p?
This Monday is the 20th Feb
what is the date next Wed?
Read analogue & digital
Convert am/pm & 24hr
Add on short times
Column addition (with carry) of 2 digit
numbers
It is 5 to six what time will it be
Subtractions (by counting up to) 100%
in 15 mins?
£1.00
Add on longer times
A film starts at 12.30 what time Column addition (with carry) more
will it fish if it lasts 1 ¾ hrs?
than 2 digit numbers
Subtraction (with decomposition)
Work out time between times School starts at 8:50 and finishes Addition & Subtraction with up to 3
at 3.15 how long are you in
decimal places. Involving money or
school?
metric units.
Use Speed = distance /time
Addition & subtraction with different
To find each of them.
metric units
234 + 837
45 + 67 + 89
346 - 269
7.4 - 4.56
£3.45 + £6.74
6.47 + 25.5 + 9
2.4 km + 540 m
How much shorter than
345 mm is 2.5 cm?
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
UV
Fractions
Colour in fraction diagrams from words.
Write simple fractions using notation.
Write fractions using notation from
diagrams – in more than one way.
Start to recognise equivalent fractions.
Multiplication & Division
Counting groups of numbers and dividing
into groups of numbers.
Use tables in context
Use tables to divide
Develop formal methods for
multiplication & division by 1 digit.
Simple addition , subtraction of fractions
with same denominator (ans. less than one )
Find equivalent fractions by multiplying
Convert mixed numbers to vulgar fractions
and vice versa.
Addition of fractions & mixed numbers with
same denominators (ans. greater than 1)
Subtraction of fractions from whole
numbers.
Cancelling fractions
Subtraction of fractions & mixed umbers
requiring decomposition.(same
denominators)
Addition & subtraction of fractions & mixed
numbers with different denominators
Multiplication of fractions and mixed
numbers.
Division of fractions & mixed numbers
Multiplication of numbers by one digit.
Division of numbers by one digit.
Remainders and fractions.
Multiplication of decimals by single digit
numbers
Division by single digits to terminating
decimals – usually money.
Find three lots of 6.
How many fives in 20?
What is the cost of four sweets at 7
pence each?
Find one third of 30 – How many 5 aside teams can be made from 17
players?
235 x 7
Find 1/5 of 565
23.5 x 6
Share a £56.00 bill between four
people.
Long multiplication of integers and money
Formal division by single digit answers
moving into decimals
Long multiplication of decimals
Division by 2 digit numbers
Division by decimals
234 x 45 What is the cost of 13
calculators at £5.45 each?
534 ÷ 7
2.34 x 1.6
7373 ÷ 17
4823 ÷ 0.5
Long division by decimals
234.56 ÷ 2.3
Proportion
Red
Orange
Use tables in fractions “of”
Yellow
Find simple % “of” using equivalent What is 50% of 460?
fractions.
Find 25% of 80
What is 10% of £56
Green
Find fractions of (numerator >1)
Use unitary method to solve simple
problems
Find % of based on multiples of
10%
Share an amount in a ratio
Find % of based on 10%
Add/subtract % onto/from
amounts
Use Speed = Dist / time
More complex ratios – varying
what amount is equivalent to.
Simple interest
Use Density = Mass / Volume
Compound interest.
Simple direct proportion
Blue
Indigo
Violet
UV
Simple indirect proportion
What is 1/5 of 35?
Find 2/3 of 72
If three cost £15 what do seven cost?
What is 30% of 70
Divide £80 in ratio 3:5
What is 15% of 70
Add VAT to £50
What is £40 with 5%
discount?
Other
Write numbers in words
and figures
Simple sequences
Missing numbers in
equivalent sums
BIDMAS
More complex problems
(2 steps +) using prior
skills (incl mixed metric
units)
50 x 70
450 ÷ 10 4.5 x 10
34 ÷ 10
2500/50
More complex problems
300 x 0.6
– using imperial measures 0.4 x 0.3
35/700
Mortar is made up of cement & sand in ratio 2:7
How much mortar can be made using 343 kg of
sand?
£400 is invested for 3 years at 4% - what is the
final amount?
12 pkts of biscuits fill 2 teachers for three
meetings.
How many meetings will 24 pkts fill 3 teachers?
3 men take 4 days to dig a hole? How long
would it take 2 men?
Mental
3 x 10
350 / 0.7
Imperial / Metric
conversion
Using metric /imperial
conversions
Time
Basic time facts
Add/sub
Red
Counting on and
back (more/less
Read clock face
than )
– simple times
Know number
bonds to 20
Know date facts Addition of more
than two digits
Column addition &
Add on short
subtraction (no
number of days carry)
Count up to 100 to
in calendar
solve subtractions
Add up simple
amounts of coins
Calculate simple
change
Orange Read analogue & Column addition
digital
(with carry) of 2
Convert am/pm digit numbers
& 24hr
Subtractions (by
Add on short
counting up to)
times
100% £1.00
Frac
Colour in fraction
diagrams from
words.
Write simple
fractions using
notation.
Mult / Div
Counting
groups of
numbers and
dividing into
groups of
numbers.
Propn
Other
Write numbers
in words and
figures
Mental
3 x 10
Write fractions using
notation from
diagrams – in more
than one way.
Start to recognise
equivalent fractions.
Use tables in
fractions “of”
Simple
sequences
50 x 70
450 ÷ 10 4.5 x
10
Yellow
Simple addition ,
subtraction of
fractions with same
denominator (ans.
less than one )
Use tables in
context
Use tables to
divide
Develop formal
methods for
multiplication &
division by 1
digit.
Multiplication
of numbers by
one digit.
Division of
numbers by
Find simple %
“of” using
equivalent
fractions.
Missing
numbers in
equivalent
sums
BIDMAS
34 ÷ 10
Add on longer
times
Column addition
(with carry) more
than 2 digit
numbers
Subtraction (with
decomposition)
Green
Work out time
between times
Addition &
Subtraction with up
to 3 decimal places.
Involving money or
metric units.
Blue
Use Speed =
distance /time
To find each of
them.
Addition &
subtraction with
different metric
units
Indigo
Find equivalent
fractions by
multiplying
Convert mixed
numbers to vulgar
fractions and vice
versa.
Addition of fractions
& mixed numbers
with same
denominators (ans.
greater than 1)
Subtraction of
fractions from whole
numbers.
Cancelling fractions
Subtraction of
fractions & mixed
umbers requiring
decomposition.(same
denominators)
one digit.
Remainders and
fractions.
Multiplication
of decimals by
single digit
numbers
Division by
single digits to
terminating
decimals –
usually money.
Addition &
subtraction of
fractions & mixed
numbers with
different
denominators
Long
multiplication
of decimals
Division by 2
digit numbers
Long
multiplication
of integers and
money
Formal division
by single digit
answers moving
into decimals
Find fractions of
(numerator >1)
Use unitary
method to solve
simple problems
Find % of based
on multiples of
10%
More complex
problems (2
steps +) using
prior skills (incl
mixed metric
units)
2500/50
Share an
amount in a
ratio
Find % of based
on 10%
Add/subtract %
onto/from
amounts
Use Speed = Dist
/ time
More complex
ratios – varying
what amount is
equivalent to.
Simple interest
Use Density =
More complex
problems –
using imperial
measures
300 x 0.6
0.4 x 0.3
35/700
350 / 0.7
Violet
UV
Multiplication of
fractions and mixed
numbers.
Division of fractions
& mixed numbers
Division by
decimals
Mass / Volume
Compound
interest.
Simple direct
proportion
Long division by Simple indirect
decimals
proportion
Imperial /
Metric
conversion
Using metric
/imperial
conversions