Six word problems in three familiar settings for Year 2 maths: a school bus trip, the book fair and sports day. Pupils add decks of bus passengers, find the difference between a 45-page book and a 21-page comic, total 5p, 8p and 4p purchases, and finish by deciding whether Leo is correct and explaining why. Worked solutions included. Aligned to the England National Curriculum.
Number - addition and subtraction
“Applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods”
The two-step problems ask pupils to choose and combine methods.
Number - addition and subtraction
“Using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures”
Money and page-count contexts keep every calculation tied to quantities.
One addition and one subtraction problem about children getting on and off the bus.
A difference problem comparing page counts, then a three-item money total.
A two-step points problem and a reasoning question asking whether Leo is correct.
Worked solutions for all six problems.
Main task
Work through the bus problems together, then set the fair and sports day pages independently.
Assessment check
The final reasoning question separates calculating from explaining.
Homework
The everyday settings make the problems easy to talk about at home.
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