Santa’s Sleigh problem incorporating multi-step problems and reasoning. Areas of maths required: volume surface area length long multiplication long division addition/subtraction. Answers included for ease of marking.

Match up task where children need to match the relevant polyhedron with both its name and correct properties. There is a 1 and 2 star sheet with the same content but a difference in how much information is given to the child. Shapes include, pyramids, prisms, sphere/hemisphere, cube/cuboid etc.

Task where children match up 2D polygons with their correct names. The task is differentiated 3 ways where the higher sheets provide less information and rely more on pupil prior knowledge. Sheet includes square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octogon, nonogon, decagon.

Useful tool for reasoning practise in Year 6. Includes a hand-drawn bar-graph for interpretation (best done with a ruler). Also useful for identifying children who are not counting from the correct place and producing erroneous answers. Exercise also includes a second sheet where children need to identify different quantities on a speedometer and a scale. This will require some decimal conversion requiring division and multiplication by 1000 (grams to kilograms and vice-versa).

A reasoning powerpoint incorporating multi-step problems similar to the type encountered in SAT papers. Ideal for year 6 in that it promotes partner/group discussion and discussion of methods and efficient methods.

Revision worksheets aimed at learning how to work out 10, 5 and 1% with the view that any percentage can be worked out using this knowledge as a foundation. 3 tasks included: - Working out 10% of any given number. - Working out 1, 5 and 10 % of any given number. - Using this knowledge to work out different percentages of given numbers. Answer sheet included for ease of marking/over-shoulder marking. Task also includes free sheet with word problems aimed at expected and greater depth.

Ideal for a starter and/or SATs revision. 3 mean average problems increasing in difficulty from * - *** Answers included at bottom of pages for quick marking.

A3 sized worksheet incorporating elicitation task that covers the following learning objectives: Can I identify the properties of a circle? Can I calculate the area of a rectangle, triangle and parallelogram? Can I calculate missing angles? Can I calculate the volume of a cuboid? Can I calculate with square and cubed numbers?

A worksheet to monitor children’s capability and understanding in using the four operations with both simple and mixed fractions. If you’ve also downloaded the elicitation task, it can be a very useful tool to highlight the progress the children are making throughout your schemes of work. Answers are included with the worksheet for ease of marking.

An Elicitation Task for year 6s to determine children’s current understanding before embarking on a teaching sequence. Questions relevant to SAT arithmetic test and also incorporates word problems that require working out percentages. Answers are included for ease of marking and a matching assessment task is also available on TES Resources.

A Year 6 assessment task that can be used to assess children’s current level of understanding in percentages, fractions, multiplication of round numbers and associated word problems. Answers are included for ease of marking. Can be used in conjunction with the elicitation task for this sequence which is also available on TES Resources.

This resource is designed to give year 6 teachers an idea of their children’s current ability across the four operations. Particularly useful as a September tool to highlight strengths and areas for development and pin-point future teaching and interventions. Sheet includes basic addition and subtraction, short multiplication and division and some algebra and basic fraction conversion work. Answers are provided for ease of marking.

A differentiated set of percentage calculations - e.g. 35% of 460. Tikka Masala = Finding multiples of 10% Madras = Finding multiples of 10 and 5% Vindaloo = Finding any percentage. Teacher can differentiate or pupils can self-differentiate depending on confidence. Pack also has a worksheet of 5 word problems aimed at middle and higher pupils - finding discounts/profits etc. Answers to all questions are included for ease of marking and ‘over shoulder’ marking.

Exercises involving fractions of numbers (e.g. 2/5 of 240) that can first be discussed as a class leading into paired work. The powerpoint discusses the formulas used for working out fractions of numbers and also touches on the point that, when dealing with fractions, X and OF mean the same thing. To finish with, plenary-wise, there is a task that children can complete (either in pairs or individually) geared to their level confidence at this particular point. Together with good quality questioning, this should prove to be useful resource across Key Stage 2 (particularly in Years 5/6).

Themed pack of worksheets on A Christmas Carol where year 6s are expected to work out percentages. This is done by filling out Scrooge’s ledger. working out percentages of amounts - e.g. 30% of £360 working out percentages - e.g. interest payment is £8 on a loan of £40. What percentage is this? Pack encloses: 3 differentiated sheets for working out percentages of amounts. 3 differentiated sheets for converting amounts into percentages. 3 differentiated sheets containing word problems that incorporate the above . Answers are included for ease of marking.

An arithmetic paper designed for year 6, offering a wide range of questions from across the year 6 curriculum and highly compatible with the calculations your pupils will be confronted with in their SAT paper. Answers are included at the back - all on one page for ease and speed during marking. A much cheaper alternative to using pre-printed specimens and a very useful tool to assess progress and identify misconceptions.

Revision Powerpoints for quick and pacy revision sessions. Useful for picking up extra marks in the reasoning papers and quick practice sessions that children can do on whiteboards. Estimation - using rounding skills to estimate answers to calculations and explain reasoning. Rounding - a reminder on how to round whole numbers and numbers to two or three decimal places. Mean Average - Exercises to remind children the formula for working out the mean of a set of data. Translation - Where there is no grid - just the axes. Children often get confused by this. This PP will help explain how to translate using mathematics alone. Hope you find it useful.

Range of word problems that incorporate 2-step and multi-step challenges. There are 15 word problems in total (duplicated on the page 2-4 times so that they can easily be cut up and given out). A good resource for setting homework on a ‘problem a day’ basis or acting as an extension task if you want to laminate them and put them in a pot (this is what I do). Problems range from: area algebra difference money fractions percentages ratio Problems are also good for class discussion and promoting reasoning/understanding skills. Answers are included at back of document for ease of marking and immediate feedback.

Three differentiated A3 sheets with timetable and table based reasoning problems - includes time, converting hours and minutes/vice versa, finding the difference, total, how many more etc. Reasoning using 4 operations Reading Timetables and interpreting answers Using reasoning skills to deduce which operations to carry out Reasoning skills to convert hrs, minutes, days, months, years etc.

A good starter exercise just to reinforce which numbers are prime and which are not. How do we know if a number is prime? Some work on common factors also.