What year math homework is this?

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My daughter is doing well in school especially literacy. Not so sure about math. What year would you say this math homework is targeted for?

I don't know about years.. we home ED... so l would say age @5 to 6.
But my Grandson is ASD so well above his peers who are in school.

Year 3

Moier · Today 00:12

I don't know about years.. we home ED... so l would say age @5 to 6.
But my Grandson is ASD so well above his peers who are in school.

Actually there’s something in this. By age is probably more appropriate than by year. So 6, so year 2 for our grandchild. At 4.5 he’s on top of simple addition/subtraction and the clock already.

It's from Schofield & Sims Mental Arithmetic 1, nominally targeted at Years 3 or 4. SS provide access to the Answers online. Page 16 in a pdf reader, page 18 by the print numbering.

How do you get the answers to the SS books? I have so many but hadn’t realised answers are online! DOH!

My DS would have done things like this in y2 but is more able. Its more typical y3 but its a weird mix of stuff.

Y2.

Unless the object of the task is to answer the questions mentally (which to be fair the linked book suggests it is) and at speed, this is not a good example of a Y3 task. It is not typical of Y3 work at all - for example in White Rose workbooks when children learn column addition/subtraction they deal exclusively with 3 digit numbers, as that is what is on the Y3 curriculum. This is far too easy as a typical Y3 task, unless you can guarantee children are working it all out in their heads, and even then it's not working on the fundamental skills of Y3 which are essentially formal written methods and times tables. (Have taught Y3 since Gove's curriculum was implemented 10 years ago).

My DD in Year 2 would be able to do most of that... but I would say probably Year 3.

I'm shocked people think this is year 5?! My ds was doing a lot of this in y2 and some in y1.
He is in Y4 now and they have done fractions and calculations of angles so I'm quite surprised that this is Y5?

I think it’s a very old book from the curriculum before 2014 to be honest. As above, it doesn’t match any year group nowadays. I agree though, far far too easy for y5.

I checked the publication date and its actually a 2016 edition. I think it's old curriculum that they've just rebranded. It 'feels' pre 2014 and the questions just don't align well to current objectives.

I find threads like this odd though because people bat ideas back and forth, ignoring the actual national curriculum which several teachers have clearly referenced. You can argue til you are blue in the face that it is Y1 or Y5 but all you need to do is match questions to the curriculum. The vast majority are Y2 level. It's the same with the 'what age is the person who wrote this?' threads with seemingly no awareness that an experienced teacher can immediately see markers for Y3, Y4, Y5 etc.

If it’s mental maths though I can see how that would be pitched higher. Eg the 1/4 of a window is 81/2cm what is the full length. My y4 could do that (but only because I’ve been working on fractions at home) but it’s odd as something like 15+5 is something my y1 could do.

It says on the tin that this is Mental Arithmetic so there is an element of practicing speed and automaticity, as with times tables. DD's school used to ask them to complete as many of the 30 questions as possible in 15 minutes. I don't remember in which year they were given each book, but I don't think many of the children were able to finish all 30 questions, especially the "word problems" in Part C, in that time.

I do these questions with my students sitting the 7+ exam in London schools (Year 1). Except adding up fractions which would be done in Y2/3.

Year 3/4

Y2

Er definitely NOT year 5 level! More like y3 as many posters have said!

Quite a mish-mash! Some of the questions are at a year 1 sort of level, and others more like Year 4/5!

I'd say somewhere around Year 3, taking it as a whole. Maybe pushing into Year 4, but barely.

Are you in the UK as you said 'math'? The years could be irrelevant.

Year 3

Yr 2

Early Year 3 (to ease them back in after the summer holidays). we literally had this worksheet.

Year 2 or 3.

Year 4