Y6 Maths
This Year 6 Prime Numbers lesson covers the prior learning of identifying prime numbers up to 100, before moving onto the main skill of identifying prime numbers, prime factors and composite numbers.
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: (6C5) Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers
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These lesson slides guides pupils through the prior learning of place value of 1s, 10s and 100s, before moving onto the main skill of prime numbers. 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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During this Prime Numbers Video Tutorial, Martin tells pupils what a prime number is and then demonstrates how to tell if a number is prime or composite.
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This Year 6 Prime Numbers lesson covers the prior learning of identifying prime numbers up to 100, before moving onto the main skill of identifying prime numbers, prime factors and composite numbers.
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This Year 5 Prime Numbers Game checks and consolidates pupils’ ability to identify prime numbers and prime factors.
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This Year 5 Prime Numbers Flash Cards Game checks pupils’ understanding of prime numbers up to 100.
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This prime numbers 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 Prime Numbers Activity includes five questions designed to check pupils’ understanding of prime and composite numbers up to 100.
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This prime numbers extension task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the prime numbers lesson.
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This worksheet includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of prime numbers.
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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 Factors, Multiples and Prime Numbers Maths Challenge aims to develop pupils’ abilty to identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers.
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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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Buzz and Renata are embarking in a new mission. They need to use prime numbers to work out a code, plan their route and label samples they collect whilst on Mars.
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This Autumn week 5 Maths pack contains varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving worksheets.
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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 the Autumn Block 2 Four Operations Block.