Introducing BIDMAS | Lesson Notes, Slides & Activities | Year 6

This lesson focuses on introducing BIDMAS, and the Need for Order - perfect for helping your students understand and articulate why we need an agreed-upon order of operations through clear explanations, thought-provoking challenges, and engaging activities!

Knowledge and Skills Covered:

Knowledge: Order of operations (BIDMAS) and solving multi-step problems.

Skills: Apply BIDMAS accurately and justify the order and method used in calculations.

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 to explain why mathematicians need a rule like BIDMAS.

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