Maths Overview

Year 6 Maths overview – Autumn 1

Unit 1 - Place Value Within 10,000,000

Using numbers to 10,000,000, rounding, negative numbers.

Unit 2 - Four Operations (1)

Problem Solving - Written Methods of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Unit 2 - Four Operations (2)

Multiples, factors, square and cube numbers, prime numbers, order of operations, using brackets.

Unit 3 - Four Operations (2) (continued) 

Multiples, factors, square and cube numbers, prime numbers, order of operations, using brackets.

Unit 4 - Fractions (1)

Simplifying, comparing and ordering, + and - fractions, problem solving with fractions

Unit 5 - Fractions (2)

Multiplying and dividing fractions, amounts of fractions, problem solving with fractions 

Year 6 Maths overview – Spring

Fractions

Multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 and give answers up to 3 decimal places 

Associate a fraction with division and calculate decimal equivalents to fractions 

Multiply decimals by whole numbers

Algebra

Generate and describe linear number sequences

Express missing number problems algebraically 

Find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns

Measurement

Convert between standard units of measurement for length, mass, volume and time. 

Convert between miles and kilometres

Recognise that shapes with the same perimeter can have a different area and vice versa

Calculate area of parallelograms and triangles 

Calculate, estimate and compare volume 

Ratio and proportion

Solve problems incoling unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples