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New Curriculum
Arithmetic Practice
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The new Mathematics National Test Paper 1 (Arithmetic)
is 30 minutes with 30 marks, testing content from
the number domain only.
 New Curriculum Arithmetic
Practice Tests Sample Overview

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Year 1 Arithmetic Practice Tests
Autumn Test 5

Year 3 Arithmetic Practice Tests

Summer Test 3

Year 5 Arithmetic Practice Tests

Spring Test 1

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Year 1 YEAR 1 ARITHMETIC PRACTICE TESTS

Autumn Test 5
Teacher guidance 8
minutes
Skills and knowledge needed for this test:
• Number knowledge of 0 to 9 • Addition and subtraction with number bonds to 7
• +, – and = signs • Addition and subtraction of 0

New: Number bonds for 8 and 9

A teaching suggestion

1
Step
Write out the number story of 8. Step
5 Use the number story to build fact families
088 that use addition and subtraction
178 (e.g. 3  5  8, 8  5  3, 8  3  5).
268
358 Step
6 Play ‘I am thinking of the number story of 8.
448 One of the numbers I am thinking of is 2.
538 What is the other?’. Repeat with other
628 numbers.
718
808
Step
7 Repeat for the number bonds for 9.

2
Step
Recite the number story, using rap style. Step
8 Review all the number bonds to date by
holding up a pair of numbers and asking
3
Step Sing the number story (perhaps using the the children to call out which number story
tune for ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’). they are in together (e.g. 3 and 2 are from
the story of 5 as in 3  2  5, or from the
Step
4 Challenge the children to find how many story of 3 as in 3  2  1).
number bonds there are in the number
story of 8. (There are five different number
bonds so there are only five to learn.)
Use this to illustrate the commutative law
(e.g. 1  7  8 and 7  1  8).

Question number Question Answer Marks Related test

1 51 4 1 Y1 Autumn Test 1, Y1 Autumn Test 2

2 44 0 1 Y1 Autumn Test 1, Y1 Autumn Test 2

3 15 6 1 Y1 Autumn Test 4

4 50 5 1 Y1 Autumn Test 3

5 93 6 1 Y1 Autumn Test 5

6 26 8 1 Y1 Autumn Test 5

Total marks 6

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Name: Class: Date:

1 51

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2 44

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3 15

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4 50

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5 93

±
6 26

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Total marks /6

How well did you do? Number bonds to 7 1 2 3 4

Colour the numbers of the
questions you got correct. Number bonds for 8 and 9 5 6
0 4
+ 3 4 6
– 1 2 5
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Year 3 YEAR 3 ARITHMETIC PRACTICE TESTS

Summer Test 3
Teacher guidance 20
minutes

Skills and knowledge needed for this test:

• Addition of three single-digit numbers • Addition and subtraction of fractions with the same
• Addition and subtraction of multiples of 10 denominator, within 1
• Addition and subtraction of a two-digit or a three-digit • Missing number statements with all four operations
number and a single-digit number with and without • Multiplication and division by 10, 5, 2, 3 and 4, including
crossing a ten derivatives
• Addition and subtraction of a two-digit or a three-digit • Formal written method for short multiplication
number and a multiple of 10 or 100 • Finding a half, a third, a quarter, two quarters or three
• Addition and subtraction of two two-digit numbers with quarters of an amount
and without crossing a ten

4
Step Use call and response games for
New: The eight times table multiplication fact recall, for example:
‘8  7 you know it well,
A teaching suggestion 8  7 you’ve got to tell.’
(Children shout: ‘It’s 56!’)
1
Step
Count in eights, forwards and backwards,
using a number line and circling the
5
Step Use call and response games for division
numbers.
fact recall, for example:
‘32 can be made with eights.
2
Step Compare the eight times, four times and
How many eights? Don’t make me wait!’
two times tables, emphasising doubling
(Children shout: ‘It’s 4!’)
and repeat doubling.
When the children are competent, mix up
3
Step
Sing or rap the eight times table. 6
Step
questions about different tables.
Question number Question Answer Marks Related test

1  16  8 8 1 Y1 Summer Test 3
2 273 12 1 Y2 Spring Test 6
3 563   569 6 1 Y3 Autumn Test 1, Y3 Autumn Test 6
4 15  5  3 1 Y3 Autumn Test 5, Y3 Spring Test 1, Y2 Spring Test 5
5  7  11 18 1 Y3 Autumn Test 1, Y1 Summer Test 4
6 36  48  84 1 Y3 Autumn Test 2
7 421  70  491 1 Y3 Autumn Test 6
8  8  32 4 1 Y3 Autumn Test 5, Y3 Spring Test 4, Y3 Summer Test 3
9 30  2  60 1 Y3 Spring Test 2, Y2 Spring Test 1
10  582  300 282 1 Y3 Summer Test 1
11 28  4  7 1 Y3 Spring Test 4
6 1 5
12 9  9  9 1 Y3 Spring Test 6
13 270  3 90 1 Y3 Autumn Test 5, Y3 Spring Test 1, Y3 Spring Test 2
3
14 4 of 48  36 1 Y3 Autumn Test 4
15 63  79  142 1 Y3 Summer Test 2
16 63  48  15 1 Y3 Autumn Test 3
17 68 48 1 Y3 Summer Test 3
18 19  3  57 1 Y3 Spring Test 1, Y3 Spring Test 5
19 357  566  923 1 Y3 Summer Test 1
20 75   38 37 1 Y3 Autumn Test 1, Y3 Autumn Test 3
Total marks 20
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 Summer Test 3
Name: Class: Date:

1 16  8 2 273

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3 563   569 4 15  5 

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5  7  11 6 36
 48

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7 421  70  8  8  32

± ±
9 30  2 = 10  582 300

± ±
6 1
11 28  4  12 9  9 

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Summer Test 3 (continued)
3
13 270  3 14 4 of 48 

± ±
15 63 16 63
 79  48

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17 68 18 19
 3

± ±
19 357 20 75   38
 566

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Total marks /20

How well did you do? without crossing a ten or a hundred 3 7 10

Colour the numbers of the crossing a ten or a hundred 6 15 16 19 20
questions you got correct. 2x, 5x and 10x tables 4 9
3x and 4x tables 4 8 9 11 13 14 18
8x table 8 17
Tables of multiples of 10 9 13
Short written x 18
Fractions of an amount 14
fractions 12
Missing number statements 3 4 5 8 13 20
+ 2 5 6 7 15 19
– 1 3 10 12 16 20
x 9 14 17 18
÷ 4 8 11 13 14

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Year 5 YEAR 5 ARITHMETIC PRACTICE TESTS

Spring Test 1
Teacher guidance 28
minutes
Skills and knowledge needed for this test:
• Addition and subtraction of two numbers up to four • Multiplication by 0; multiplication and division by 1;
digits square numbers
• Addition and subtraction of fractions with the same • Formal written method for short multiplication (to HTO)
denominator and short division (to TO), including with remainders
• Multiplication and division to 12  12 including • Multiplication and division of whole numbers by 10, 100
derivatives of multiples of 100 or 1000
• Multiplication of three numbers • Missing number statements with all four operations

Question
New: Cube numbers
Question Answer Marks Related test
number

1 19  1  19 1 Y4 Autumn Test 6

A teaching suggestion 2  35  7 5 1 Y4 Spring Test 6

3 473  100  47 300 1 Y5 Autumn Test 5

1
Step Give the children cubes to use. Discuss the
4 42  16 1 Y5 Autumn Test 4
properties of a cube and agree that all the
faces are square and that all the edges are 5 701  523  178 1 Y5 Autumn Test 3
the same length. 6 9  10  0.9 1 Y5 Autumn Test 5

2
Step
Use eight single cubes to build a 2  2  2 7 20 0 1 Y4 Autumn Test 4

cube and count the cubes that you used. 8 17

10
9
 10  8
10 (or equiv) 1 Y5 Autumn Test 2
Show that it has two rows, two columns 9  28  1 28 1 Y4 Autumn Test 6
and two layers, and that 2  2  2  8.
10 122  144 1 Y5 Autumn Test 4

3
Step
Ask the children to investigate other cubes 11  6  72 12 1
Y4 Autumn Test 3,
Y4 Spring Test 4
that they can build and to make a table of 12 444  732  288 1
Y4 Spring Test 3,
Y3 Autumn Test 1
their results. 2
13 4 of 20  10 1 Y3 Autumn Test 4

Number of 14 6314  2789  9103 1 Y4 Spring Test 1

Rows Columns Layers
cubes 5 5
15 6  6  1 64 (or equiv) 1 Y5 Autumn Test 2
2 2 2 8
Y4 Summer Test 5,
16 400  8  3200 1 Y3 Summer Test 3
1
17  3 of 42 14 1 Y2 Summer Test 5

4
Step
Collect and display the results and explain 18 146  7  1022 1 Y4 Summer Test 1
that these numbers are called ‘cube
19 6512  1826  4686 1 Y4 Spring Test 3
numbers’ because they make a cube!
(Using cubes to investigate cube numbers 20 98  6  16 r2 1 Y5 Autumn Test 6
makes the concept and mathematical 21 5  46  2  460 1 Y4 Summer Test 3
vocabulary more memorable for children.) Y4 Autumn Test 3,
22 48  8 384 1 Y3 Summer Test 3

5
Step Introduce the notation 33 for 3 multiplied 23 23  8 1 Y5 Spring Test 1
by itself 3 times (hence the 3) where 24  492  781 289 1
Y4 Spring Test 3,
Y3 Autumn Test 1
33  3  3  3  27.
25 324  100  3.24 1 Y5 Autumn Test 5

26 896  9  8064 1 Y4 Summer Test 1

27 8000  2145  5855 1 Y5 Autumn Test 3

28  53 125 1 Y5 Spring Test 1

Total marks 28

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Name: Class: Date:

1 19  1  2  35  7

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3 473  100  4 42 

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5 701  523  6 9  10 

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17 9
7 20= 8 10  10 

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9  28  1 10 122 

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11  6  72 12 444  732 

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2 6314
13 4 of 20  14  2 7 8 9

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5
15 6  65  16 400  8 

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17  31 of 42 18  7
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19 6512  1826  20 6 98

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21 5  46  2  22 48  8

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23 23  24  492  781

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896
25 324  100  26  9
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8000
27  2 1 4 5 28  53

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Total marks /28

How well did you do? – with zeros 5 27

Colour the numbers of the Multiples of tables 16
questions you got correct. Square and cube numbers 4 10 23 28
÷ or by 10, 100 or 1000 3 6 25
Short 18 22 26
Short ÷, including r 17 20
Fractions 8 13 15 17
Missing numbers 11 12 22 24
+ 14 15
– 5 8 12 19 24 27
1 3 4 7 10 13 16 18 21 23 26 28
÷ 2 6 9 11 13 17 20 22 25

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