Challenging maths (upper KS2)
Jam-packed with worksheets, PowerPoints, innovative teaching ideas and maths games, this pack will help you deliver exemplary lessons targeting the six areas of the year 5/6 maths curriculum. It includes a large section on number to cover all topics, including place value, fractions, decimals and percentages and multiplication and division. The pack also includes problems in real-life contexts to help children develop their problem-solving and reasoning skills.
Lesson plans are aimed at a mixed ability upper key stage 2 cohort but include some concepts and activities to challenge your high achievers. And, as always, you can adapt our Word documents and PowerPoints to suit different learners.
SATs-style questions are included to help prepare all children for the Arithmetic and Reasoning papers.
What's included?
- 44 quality teaching resources including answers and 10 PowerPoint presentations
- SATs-style questions and answers
- links to the National Curriculum.
What's inside?
Introduction (pages 1-2)
Number
Number and place value (pages 3-15)
- Resource - mathematical word search
- Resource - reading and writing whole numbers
- Resource - rounding numbers
- Resource - negative numbers
- Resource - negative of the day
Using all four operations (pages 16-38)
- Resource - slider for multiplying and dividing by powers of ten
- Resource - properties of number
- Resource - multiplication circuit
- Resource - multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000
- Resource - understanding division
- Resource - solve this
Fractions (including decimals and percentages) (pages 39-64)
- Resource - place value grid
- Resource - four in a row
- Resource - finding fractions, decimals and percentages
- Resource - equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages
- Resource - all fraction calculations domino set
- Resource - multiplying fractions circuit
- Resource - code breaker – simplifying fractions
- Resource - converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions
Ratio and proportion (pages 65-76)
- Resource - using ratio to compare quantities
- Resource - finding a scale factor and centre of enlargement
- Resource - enlarging a shape by a given scale factor and centre of enlargement
- Resource - ratio code breaker
Algebra (pages 77-92)
- Resource - sequence of the day
- Resource - missing numbers
- Resource - substitution code breaker
- Resource - snakes and Ladders
Measurement (pages 93-109)
- Resource - clock face
- Resource - metric bingo
- Resource - time bingo
- Resource - from sentences to formulae
- Resource - kilometres to miles – drawing a conversion graph
- Resource - perimeter problems
Geometry
Geometry: properties of shape (pages 110-122)
- Resource - the circle
- Resource - properties of 2D and 3D shapes - noughts and crosses
- Resource - 2D shape of the day
- Resource - angles treasure hunt
- Resource - 3D shape properties
Geometry: position and direction (pages 123-136)
- Resource - coordinate battleship
- Resource - translating shapes
- Resource - reflection jigsaw
- Resource - missing coordinates
Statistics (pages 137-153)
- Resource - finding the mean
- Resource - constructing pie charts
- Resource - let's investigate
Here is a sample from the pack. Or download a sample section below.
Reasoning
Read the following problems carefully and show any workings to help explain your answer.
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