This in-depth maths investigation is an open-ended problem solving activity for Year 6 children. It can be used to support teaching towards the place value, addition and subtraction objectives: understand negative numbers and perform calculations across 0.
In-depth Investigation: Noughts and Negatives
Children play an adapted game of noughts and crosses, aiming to get negative number answers.
This investigation will develop maths meta-skills, support open-ended questioning and logical reasoning, and enable children to learn to think mathematically and articulate mathematical ideas.
This problem-solving investigation is part of our Year 6 Place Value, Addition and Subtraction block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.
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Year 6 Place Value, Addition and Subtraction - Problem-Solving Investigations
These in-depth maths investigations are open-ended problem solving activities for Year 6 children. **In-depth Investigation: Giant Domino Addition** Children follow a logic to convert arrangements of dominoes to numbers, and then perform a giant addition. They then create their own domino additions and explore addition patterns. **In-depth Investigation: Nine AGAIN** Children subtract 5-digit numbers and look for patterns in the digital roots. **In-depth Investigation: Noughts and Negatives** Children play an adapted game of noughts and crosses, aiming to get negative number answers. **In-depth Investigation: All at 6s and 7s** Children try to make every number to at least 10 using 6, 7 and sometimes 2 and 3, and any operations. These investigations will develop maths meta-skills, support open-ended questioning and logical reasoning, and enable children to learn to think mathematically and articulate mathematical ideas. These problem-solving investigations come from our [Year 6 Maths Blocks](https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/maths/year-6-maths/). Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.
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Understand/calculate negative numbers (Year 6 PV, Addition and Subtraction)
This bundle provides two days of teaching that cover the objectives: **Understand negative numbers Perform calculations across 0** *Teaching Presentation* The teaching presentation includes starter activities, whole class teaching, group activities, practice sheets and mastery questions. It can be used on a variety of interactive whiteboards. *Practice Worksheets* The procedural fluency practice worksheets are differentiated for children working towards Age Related Expectations (ARE), at ARE and at greater depth. *Problem-Solving Investigation* This in-depth maths investigation will develop maths meta-skills, and enable children to learn to think mathematically and articulate mathematical ideas. This teaching is part of Hamilton’s [Year 6 Place Value, Addition and Subtraction](https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/maths/year-6-maths/place-value-addition-subtraction-2/) block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.
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