The Riverdale Basic Facts Ladder

Climb your way to success! The Basic facts ladder is a tool to assist your Basic facts knowledge. This progression is to help you with the next learning step. Ask your grown-up to help you, then I'll do checks with you back at school.

Have fun climbing the ladder, look ahead and don't be scared of heights.

Stage 7
57. Divisibility rules for 4, 6, 8

56. Divisibility rules for 2, 3, 5, 9, 10

55. Simple powers of numbers up to 10. eg 5 to the power of 2 = 25

0. 5 to the power of 3 = 125

54. Square numbers to 100 and corresponding roots eg 7 to power of 2 = 49.

Square root of 49 = 7

53. Common factors of numbers to 100 eg of 48 and 64 = 1,2,4,8,16

52. Least common multiples of numbers to 10 eg 24 is LCM of 6 and 8

51. Fractions – decimals - % eg 75% = 0.75 = ¾

50. Knows all division basic facts

Stage 6

49. Multiplication basic facts with 10’s, 100’s and 1000’s eg 10 x 100 1000 x 10,400 361 x 1,000

48. Division facts for 6 x tables

47. Division facts for 4 x tables

46. Division facts for 3 x tables

45. Multiplication facts for 9 x tables

44. Multiplication facts for 8 x tables

43. Multiplication facts for 7 x tables

42. Multiplication facts for 6 x tables

41. Multiplication facts for 4 x tables

40. Multiplication facts for 3 x tables

39. Subtraction facts from 10-20 eg 16 – 8, 19 – 2, 13 – 4

Stage 5

38. Multiples of 100 that add to make 1000 eg 400 + 600 300 + 700

37. 10 times tables division facts

36. 5 times tables division facts

35. 2 times tables division facts

34. 10 times tables

33. 5 times tables

32. 2 times tables

31. Subtraction from 10 eg 10 – 5 10 – 8

30. Add combinations up to 20 eg 11 + 6 14 + 3

29. Combinations to make 20 eg 15 + 5 14 + 6

Stage 4

28. Multiples of ten (decades) to 100 eg 30 + 70, 40 + 60

27. Ten and facts eg 10 + 4, 7 + 10

26. "tens in decades" e.g.10's in 80, 10's in 30 between 24 and 25

25. Doubles to 10 + 10 eg 9 + 9, 7 + 7

24. Subtraction combinations up to 10 eg 7 – 4, 10 – 2

23. Addition combinations up to 10 eg 4 + 3, 6 +2

Stage 2 -3

22. Doubles that add up to 10 eg 5 + 5 6 + 4

21. Subtract up to 5 eg 4 – 2 3 – 3

20. Subtract from 5 eg 5 – 4 5 – 1

19. Add combinations to 5 eg 1 + 3 3 + 0

18. Combinations to make 5 eg 2 + 3 5 + 0

17. Addition with 5 e.g.5 + 2, 4 + 5

16. Addition combos to make 10 e.g.4 + 6, 3 + 7

15. Recognise patterns to 10 e.g.tens frame patterns

Stage 0-1

14. Say number before up to 10 eg -7, -9, -10

13. Say number after up to 10 eg 5-, 8-, 7-

12. Say number before up to 5 eg -3, -4, -1

11. Say number after to 5 eg 4-5, 3-4

10. Order number cards eg 0-10

9. Write numerals 0 – 10 correctly

8. Count backwards from 10

7. Tens frame patterns to 10

6. Recognise numerals to ten

5. Finger patterns to 10

4. Recognise numerals to 5

3. Know dice patterns to 6

2. Finger patterns to 5

1. Count forwards to 10