BIDMAS STEM Challenge | Lesson Notes, Slides & Activities | Year 6

This lesson takes BIDMAS out of the textbook and into a real world engineering challenge! Students will apply the order of operations to solve a complex, multi-stage project: redesigning your school’s emergency warning system and building a custom housing structure for its hardware.

Knowledge and Skills Covered:

Knowledge: Advanced order of operations (BIDMAS) and complex, multi-step problem solving.

Skills: Apply BIDMAS to real-world financial and engineering scenarios, justify methodology, and translate verbal problems into formal mathematical strings.

What’s Included?

Your download includes everything you need for a successful lesson:

Unit Overview Notes: Outlines the knowledge, skills, and pre-requisites for the entire unit. This lesson is part of a 3 lesson unit, exploring ‘Is order always important?’

Detailed Lesson Walkthrough/Notes: Includes a step-by-step guide with guiding questions and key discussion points.

Guiding Questions: Great opportunities for AfL throughout your lesson, designed to help your students draw on their previous learning and make purposeful connections.

Lesson Slides: Engaging slides to guide your lesson.

Lesson Activities: Includes accessible, low-floor high ceiling activities that all students can access through adaptive teaching, leading to improved confidence. There are also opportunities embedded in the lesson for further challenge to extend learners further.

Exit Ticket: A purposeful closing task for students to share their thoughts on whether order is important.

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