Y6 Maths
Short Division Lesson
This Year 6 Short Division lesson covers the prior learning divide with remainders, before moving onto the main skill of short division.
The lesson starts with a prior learning worksheet to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. 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: (6C7b) Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit number using the formal written method of short division where appropriate, interpreting remainders according to the context
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1 Prior Learning
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Worksheet
This Year 6 Short Division lesson covers the prior learning divide with remainders, before moving onto the main skill of short division.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 5 Divide with Remainders activity includes three questions designed to consolidate pupils’ understanding of dividing numbers with remainders.
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Reasoning Practice
This Year 5 Divide with Remainders Reasoning Practice consolidate pupils’ understanding of dividing with remainders whilst developing their reasoning skills.
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Video Tutorial
In this Divide with Remainders Video Tutorial, Jade demonstrates how to solve division problems by exchanging between place value columns.
2 Teaching
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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guides pupils through the prior learning of divide with remainders, before moving onto the main skill of short division. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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Lesson Slides
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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Video Tutorial
In this Short Division Video Tutorial, Martin demonstrates how to complete division calculations using the short method, which pupils may know as ‘bus stop method’.
3 Activities
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Worksheet
This worksheet includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of rounding to the nearest 10.
4 Extension
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Extension
This short division extension task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the short division lesson.
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Maths Challenge
This Year 6 Short Division Maths Challenge aims to develop pupils’ ability to divide 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers using the short or ‘bus stop’ method.
