Y6 Mathematics
This Year 6 Forming Expressions lesson covers the prior learning of find a rule, both one step and two step, before moving onto the main skill of forming expressions.
The lesson starts with a prior learning worksheet to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning by completing an engaging extension task.
National Curriculum Objective
Mathematics Year 6: (6A1) Express missing number problems algebraically
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These lesson slides guides pupils through the prior learning of place value find a rule, both one step and two step, before moving onto the main skill of forming expressions. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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This powerpoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the Varied Fluency and Reasoning & Problem Solving worksheets as part of this lesson.
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These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
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This Forming Expressions Video Tutorial shows pupils how to create an algebraic expression using a function machine.
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This Year 6 Forming Expressions lesson covers the prior learning of find a rule, both one step and two step, before moving onto the main skill of forming expressions.
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This Year 6 Find a Rule - One Step Game checks pupils' understanding of finding missing inputs, functions and outputs of one-step function machines.
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This Year 6 Find a Rule - Two-Step Game includes five questions designed to check pupils' understanding of finding an algebraic rule with two steps.
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This the Forming Expressions supporting activities sheet contains suggestions for additional tasks you might wish to use to support pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the lesson.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to practise the main skill of this lesson.
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This Year 6 Forming Expressions Game includes five questions designed to check pupils' ability to form expressions from given inputs.
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This worksheet includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of forming expressions.
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This differentiated worksheet includes reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This worksheet includes two discussion problems which can be used in pairs or small groups to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in this lesson.
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This Year 6 Forming Expressions Maths Challenge is designed to check pupils' understanding of forming expressions from statements.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This resource is aimed at Year 6 Expected and has been designed to give children the opportunity to consolidate the skills they have learned in Spring Block 3 Algebra.
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This Spring week 5 Maths pack contains varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving worksheets