Y6

Maths

Spring 1 Week 6 Maths in Minutes

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This Year 6 Spring 1 Week 6 Maths in Minutes resource is designed to promote quick recall and retrieval of children's knowledge and prior learning, recapping a number of objectives from Year 5 and the autumn term of Year 6.

There are three sets of five questions that cover a variety of maths skills in the areas of number, calculation, measure, geometry, statistics and fractions. This activity is perfect to use during registration, at the start of a maths lesson or whenever you have some time to spare. We've specially designed this resource to be displayed on the interactive whiteboard to save on printing costs. Try it today!


Curriculum Objectives

  • Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days
  • Convert between different units of metric measure (for example, kilometre and metre; centimetre and metre; centimetre and millimetre; gram and kilogram; litre and millilitre)
  • Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints
  • 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
  • Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles
  • Identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations
  • Identify angles at a point and one whole turn (total 360), angles at a point on a straight line and 1/2 a turn (total 180 ) and other multiples of 90
  • Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables
  • Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph
  • Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000
  • Determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 10 000 000
  • Use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero
  • Multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication
  • 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
  • Identify the value of each digit in numbers given to three decimal places and multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000 giving answers up to three decimal places