Home Education Maths, Year 3 to Year 6
For home educating families in the UK
A maths curriculum you can teach from tomorrow morning
Eighty interactive lessons in teaching order, sorted into Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 and the work that comes after the papers. You open the next lesson, teach from the worked example on the screen, and your child practises underneath it. There is nothing to plan the night before and nothing to print.
Lifetime access. Works on a laptop or a desktop computer.
The scheme of work
Eighty lessons, laid out by school year
Every lesson sits in the school year the National Curriculum first teaches it. Find your child, start there, and work up to the papers in May of Year 6. Open a year to read every lesson inside it.
Where the written methods start
Place value to 1,000, column addition and subtraction, the 3, 4 and 8 times tables, tenths, right angles, and reading bar charts and pictograms.
Reading Numbers to 100 · Reading Numbers to 1,000 · Mental Addition & Subtraction, and 7 more
In the KS2 SATs course · drawn from 5 of the 16 topic blocksDecimals arrive, and measuring
Place value to 10,000, rounding, all tables to 12 x 12, short multiplication, decimals to two places, negative numbers, perimeter and first quadrant coordinates.
Reading Numbers to 10,000 · Rounding Numbers · Grid and Column Multiplication, and 13 more
In the KS2 SATs course · drawn from 8 of the 16 topic blocksBigger numbers, primes and area
Numbers to 1,000,000, long multiplication and short division, factors, primes, squares and cubes, thousandths, estimating by rounding, the per cent symbol and the area of rectangles.
Reading Numbers to 1,000,000 · Divisibility & Multiplication Rules · Squares, Cubes and Roots, and 9 more
In the KS2 SATs course · drawn from 9 of the 16 topic blocksRatio, algebra and averages
Long division and the order of operations, fractions with different denominators, ratio and proportion, algebra, the mean, pie charts, area of triangles, volume of cuboids and all four quadrants.
Reading Numbers to 1,000,000,000 · Order of Operations (BIDMAS) · Inverse Operations and Inserting Brackets, and 23 more
In the KS2 SATs course · drawn from 14 of the 16 topic blocksThe sixteen that sit past Key Stage 2
Not in the Key Stage 2 programme of study and never assessed by SATs: percentage change, collecting and expanding terms, two-step equations, trapezia, surface area, mode, median and range, Venn diagrams, probability, speed and binary. They run in their own order, taken after the papers.
Percentage increase, decrease and change · Reverse percentages · Collecting terms, and 13 more
In the full course only · drawn from 8 of the 16 topic blocksEach lesson keeps its number from the full course, so the numbers inside a year jump about. If you are not sure which year to start in, pick the one below.
Coverage, honestly
Where this sits against the National Curriculum
Sixty-four of the eighty lessons sit on the Key Stage 2 programme of study, each placed in the school year the curriculum first teaches it. The other sixteen are past Key Stage 2 and never on the papers.
On the KS2 curriculum 64 lessons · both courses
- Place value, from numbers to 100 up to a billion
- The four operations: mental, column, grid, short and long division
- Fractions, decimals and percentages, and converting between them
- Ratio and proportion, recipes and best buys
- The start of algebra: expressions, function machines, equations, sequences
- Measurement: units, time, perimeter, area and volume
- Geometry: angles, shapes, symmetry, coordinates and transformations
- Statistics: tables, charts, two-way tables, pie charts and the mean
Past KS2, after the papers 16 lessons · full course only
- Percentage change and reverse percentages
- Collecting, multiplying and dividing terms; two-step equations
- Trapezia, compound shapes and surface area
- Mode, median and range; Venn and Carroll diagrams
- Probability, including dependent events
- Speed, distance and time; binary and other bases
- Sudoku, anagrams and codes, magic squares
The Key Stage 2 lessons are taught with harder questions than a school scheme usually sets, because the course was written for children being stretched. Every lesson has gentler levels inside it, so you can stay at that end if your child needs to. This is a maths teacher’s own scheme of work, mapped onto the school years. It is not published by a curriculum body and it is not an accredited course.
How a lesson runs
Four steps, every time
The routine does not change from lesson to lesson. Once you have done one, you have done all eighty.
Find the year, open the first lesson
Use the ladder above. If your child sits between two years, start at the lower one. A lesson is twenty to thirty minutes, so a repeated week costs you almost nothing.
Read the worked example out loud
The method appears one line at a time as you click. You are reading what is on the screen and asking your child the question at the end of each line.
Let them do the practice on paper
They work the questions in an exercise book, then click each answer to reveal it and check it against their own working.
Tick it off and pick up the next one
The free progress tracker lists all eighty lessons in order, so the tick sheet becomes your record of what you covered this year.
Inside a lesson
What is actually on the screen
Three of the 463 units, as your child sees them.
Carry on
The rest of it
Two ways to buy it
The Key Stage 2 lessons on their own, or the whole library including the sixteen that carry on past Key Stage 2. Both are one payment, and both are yours to keep.
The Complete KS2 SATs Maths Course
The 64 lessons on the ladder from Year 3 to Year 6: the ones the National Curriculum covers and the SATs papers test. 379 units and 5,538 questions.
The Complete Maths Course
All eighty lessons, 463 units and 6,773 questions. Everything above, plus the sixteen that sit past Key Stage 2 and take a child into Year 7 work.
Everything opens in a browser. Nothing to install and nothing to print. Built for a laptop or a desktop computer. Try the free practice questions first, or see inside a lesson and the 40-week plan.