Autumn Year 6 Baseline Maths Assessment

Year 6 Baseline Maths Assessment

This Year 6 Baseline Maths Assessment has 60 questions related to each of the Year 5 Mathematics objectives to help teachers quickly and easily identify gaps in prior knowledge. This resource includes the baseline assessment, answers and a tracker sheet to enable teachers to analyse results.

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What's included in the pack?

This pack includes:

• Baseline Maths Assessments for Year 6 with answers included.
• Tracking spreadsheet to help identify gaps in knowledge.

Year 5 National Curriculum Objectives:

Number – number and place value

• (5N2) Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
• (5N1) Count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1 000 000
• (5N5) Interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero
• (5N4) Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000
• (5N6) Solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above
• (5N3b) Read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals

Number – addition and subtraction

• (5C2) Add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)
• (5C1) Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers
• (5C3) Use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy
• (5C4) Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why

Number – multiplication and division

• (5C5a) Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers
• (5C5b) Know and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers
• (5C5c) Establish whether a number up to 100 is prime and recall prime numbers up to 19
• (5C7a) Multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one- or two-digit number using a formal written method, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers
• (5C6a) Multiply and divide numbers mentally drawing upon known facts
• (5C7b) Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context
• (5C7a) Multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
• (5C5d) Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers, and the notation for squared (2) and cubed (3)
• (5C8a) Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes
• (5C8b) Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign
• (5C8c) Solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling by simple fractions and problems involving simple rates

Number – fractions (including decimals and percentages)

• (5F3) Compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
• (5F2b) Identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths
• (5F2a) Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other and write mathematical statements > 1 as a mixed number [for example, 2/5 + 4/5 = 6/5 = 1 1/5 ]
• (5F4) Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number
• (5F5) Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams
• (5F6a) Read and write decimal numbers as fractions [for example, 0.71 = 71/100]
• (5F6b) Recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents
• (5F7) Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
• (5F8) Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places
• (5F10) Solve problems involving number up to three decimal places
• (5F11) Recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal
• (5F12) Solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of 1/2 , 1/4 , 1/5 , 2/5 , 4/5 and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25

Measurement

• (5M5) Convert between different units of metric measure (for example, kilometre and metre; centimetre and metre; centimetre and millimetre; gram and kilogram; litre and millilitre)
• (5M6) Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints
• (5M7a) Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres
• (5M7b) Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), and including using standard units, square centimetres (cm2) and square metres (m2) and estimate the area of irregular shapes
• (5M8) Estimate volume [for example, using 1 cm3 blocks to build cuboids (including cubes)] and capacity [for example, using water]
• (5M4) Solve problems involving converting between units of time
• (5M9a) Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure [for example, length, mass, volume, money] using decimal notation, including scaling

Geometry – properties of shapes

• Identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations
• Know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles

* Draw given angles, and measure them in degrees

* Identify angles at a point and one whole turn (total 360)

* Identify angles at a point on a straight line and 1/2 a turn (total 180 )

* Identify other multiples of 90

• Use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles
• Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles

Geometry – position and direction

• Identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed

Statistics

• Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph
• Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables

*these objectives are practical so are not included in this assessment

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