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Year 6 Maths Learning

Here are some of the key learning objectives for the end of Year 6:

• know and use Place value up to 10 million
• Counting on and back in steps of powers of 10 from any number up to 10 million
• Round numbers to any given degree of accuracy.
• Count forwards and backwards through zero with positive and negative numbers.
• Read Roman numerals to 1000 and recognise years written in Roman numerals
• solve multi-step problems using addition and subtraction in a range of contexts
• identify multiples and factors including common factors
• multiply and divide up to 4-digit numbers by up to 2 digits
• Use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the four operations.
• Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers.
• solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• simplify fractions
• compare and order fractions including mixed numbers
• add and subtract fractions with different denominators including mixed numbers
• multiply simple fractions together and simplify the answer
• divide proper fractions by whole numbers
• recall and use equivalence between simple fractions, decimals and percentages.
• Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals up to 3dp by 10, 100 or 1000
• read, write, order and compare numbers up to 3dp
• round decimals with up to 3dp to the nearest whole
• solve problems with numbers up to 3dp
• work out percentages of different amounts
• solve problems using percentages
• use simple formulae
• express missing number problems using algebra
• find pairs of numbers that satisfy equations with two variables
• solve problems involving simple ratios
• solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known
• use, read, write and convert between standard units of measure
• measure, compare and calculate using different measures
• know that shapes with the same area can have different perimeters
• find the area of parallelograms and right triangles
• find the volume of cubes and cuboids
• convert between miles and km
• name and understand the parts of circles - radius, diameter and circumference
• draw 2D shapes accurately using dimensions and angles
• compate and classify 2D shapes by a range of properties
• find missing angles in triangles, quadrilaterals and regular shapes
• use coordinates in all 4 quadrants
• draw and translate simple shapes in all 4 quadrants
• interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs
• calculate the mean as an average

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Year 6 is generally equivalent to 5th Grade in the US.

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Coronavirus Stay At Home Support

For those parents who have found themselves unexpectedly at home with the kids and need some emergency activities for them to do, we have started to develop some Maths Grab Packs for kids in the UK.

Each pack consists of at least 10 mixed math worksheets on a variety of topics to help you keep you child occupied and learning.

The idea behind them is that they can be used out-of-the-box for some quick maths activities for your child.

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Place Value & Number Sense Zone

Year 6 number worksheets.

Here you will find a range of Free Printable Year 6 Number Worksheets.

Using these Year 6 maths worksheets will help your child to:

• use place value with numbers up to 10 million;
• use place value with up to 3 decimal places;
• understand how to use exponents (powers) of a number;
• understand and use parentheses (brackets);
• understand and use multiples and factors;
• extend their knowledge of prime and composite (non-prime) numbers up to 100;
• know and be able to use the PEMDAS (or PEDMAS) rule.
• Place Value Worksheets to 10 million
• Place Value to 3dp
• Ordering Decimals Worksheets
• PEMDAS Rule Support Page
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• Roman Numerals worksheets

Ordering Large Numbers and Decimals to 3dp

The sheets in this section involve ordering lists of decimals to 3 decimal places and also large numbers up to 100 million.

There are sheets with decimals up to 10, and also sheets with numbers from -10 to 10.

• Ordering Large Numbers up to 100 million
• Ordering Decimals to 3dp

Rounding Decimals

• Rounding to the nearest tenth
• Rounding Decimal Places Sheets to 2dp
• Rounding Decimals Worksheet Challenges

Year 6 Decimal Counting Worksheets

Using these sheets will support you child to:

• count on and back by multiples of 0.1;
• fill in the missing numbers in sequences;
• count on and back into negative numbers.
• Counting By Decimals

Year 6 Mental Maths Zone

Each worksheet tests the children on a range of math topics from number facts and mental arithmetic to geometry, fraction and measures questions.

A great way to revise topics, or use as a weekly math quiz!

• Year 6 Mental Maths Tests

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Year 6 Addition Worksheets

• add decimals including tenths and hundredths mentally;
• add a columns of multi-digit numbers, including decimals.
• Decimal Addition Fact Worksheets
• 5th Grade Addition Worksheets BIG Numbers
• Decimal Column Addition Worksheets
• Money Worksheets (randomly generated)

Year 6 Subtraction Worksheets

Using these sheets will help your child to:

• subtract decimals including tenths and hundredths mentally;
• subtract multi-digit numbers, including decimals using column subtraction.
• Subtracting Decimals Worksheets (mental)
• Subtraction Worksheets up to Billions (columns)
• Column Subtraction with Decimals

Year 6 Multiplication Worksheets

• extend their knowlege of multiplication to decimals;
• use their multiplication tables to answer related facts, including decimals;
• multiply a range of decimals with up to 2 decimal places (2dp) by a whole number;
• multiply different money amounts by a whole number.
• Multiplying Decimals by 10 and 100
• Multiplication Fact Sheet Decimals
• Decimal Multiplication Worksheets to 1dp
• Decimal Multiplication Worksheets to 2dp
• Free Multiplication Worksheets (randomly generated)
• Multiply and Divide by 10 100 (decimals)
• Multiplication & Division Worksheets (randomly generated)
• Multiplication Word Problems

Division Worksheets 5th Grade

Using these Year 6 maths worksheets will help your child learn to:

• divide any whole number up to 10000 by a two digit number;
• express any division with a remainder in the form of a mixed number (a number with a fraction part).
• Long Division Worksheets (whole numbers)
• Long Division of Decimal Numbers
• Decimal Division Facts
• Division Facts Worksheets (randomly generated)

Year 6 Maths Problems

• apply their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills;
• apply their knowledge of rounding and place value;
• solve a range of problems including "real life" problems and ratio problems.

These sheets involve solving one or two more challenging longer problems.

• Year 6 Math Problems (5th Grade)

These sheets involve solving many 'real-life' problems involving data.

• Year 6 Math Word Problems (5th Grade)

These sheets involve solving a range of ratio problems.

Year 6 Fraction Worksheets

Year 6 percentage worksheets, year 6 ratio worksheets.

• compare and order fractions;
• add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers;
• understand how to multiply fractions by a whole number;
• understand how to multiply two fractions together, including mixed fractions;
• understand the relationship between fractions and division;
• know how to divide fractions and mixed fractions;
• convert decimals to fractions.
• Comparing Fractions Worksheet page
• Adding Fractions Worksheets
• Adding Improper Fractions
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• Converting Decimals to Fractions Worksheets
• Fractions Decimals Percents Worksheets
• Multiplying Fractions Worksheets
• Dividing Fractions by Whole numbers
• Divide Whole numbers by Fractions
• Simplifying Fractions Worksheets
• Free Printable Fraction Riddles (harder)

Take a look at our percentage worksheets for finding the percentage of a number or money amount.

We have a range of percentage sheets from quite a basic level to much harder.

• Percentage of Numbers Worksheets
• Money Percentage Worksheets
• Percentage Word Problems

These Year 6 Ratio worksheets are a great way to introduce this concept.

We have a range of part to part ratio worksheets and slightly harder problem solving worksheets.

• Ratio Part to Part Worksheets
• Ratio and Proportion Worksheets

Year 6 Geometry Worksheets

• know how to find missing angles in a range of situations;
• learn the number of degrees in a right angle, straight line, around a point and in a triangle;
• know how to calculate the area of a triangle;
• know how to calculate the area of a range of quadrilaterals.
• learn the formulas to calculate the area of triangles and some quadrilaterals;
• write and plot coordinates in all 4 quadrants.
• (5th Grade) Geometry - Angles
• Area of Quadrilaterals
• 5th Grade Volume Worksheets
• Coordinate Worksheets (1st Quadrant)
• Coordinate Plane Worksheets (All 4 Quadrants)
• Parts of a Circle Worksheets

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Year 6 measurement worksheets.

Using these sheets will help your child understand how to:

• learn how to read a standard scale going up in different fractions: halves, quarters, eighths and sixteenths;
• learn how to read a metric scale going up in 0.1s, 5s, 10s, 25s, 50s & 100s;
• learn how to estimate a measurement of length, weight or liquid;
• convert temperatures in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
• (5th Grade) Measurement Worksheets

Time Puzzles - harder

Here you will find our selection of harder time puzzles.

• Time Word Problems Worksheets - Riddles (harder)

Using these sheets will help you to:

• find the mean of up to 5 numbers;
• find a missing data point when the mean is given.
• Mean Worksheets

Fun Zone: Puzzles, Games and Riddles

Year 6 maths games.

• Year 6 Math Games (5th Grade)

Year 6 Maths Puzzles

The puzzles will help your child practice and apply their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts as well as developing their thinking and reasoning skills in a fun and engaging way.

• Printable Math Puzzles

Math Salamanders Year 6 Maths Games Ebook

Our Year 6 Maths Games Ebook contains all of our fun maths games, complete with instructions and resources.

This ebooklet is available in our store - use the link below to find out more!

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• Find songs and   mnemonics   to help your child remember the days of the week/months of the year/colours of the rainbow (for example, ‘Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain’).
• Use flashcards to learn words which your child finds difficult and play a matching game to find words beginning with the same letter.
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• Write and read out a list of rhyming words that have the same sounds such as ‘rain’, ‘brain’, and ‘main’, and then write another word that is different, such as ‘the’. Ask your child which one is the odd one out.
• Play ‘Simon says’ with slightly more complicated instructions than ‘Stand up/Sit down’. Try to jiggle on one leg, flap your arms and hop, rub your tummy and smile!
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• Fun Activities to Boost Maths Skill for 6-Year-Old Kids

The moment kids start exploring the world, they also start learning about Maths from that very moment. From recognising shapes to counting large numbers to identifying patterns, kids develop all these skills by engaging in activities that involve practical problem solving.

In our increasingly technological world, the demand for a strong skill set in Maths is expected to increase as technological innovations continue to progress. So, as a parent, it is your responsibility to help your kids learn the skills that are needed for success and involve them in their learning as early as possible.

Here, we have listed some of the simple things and activities that you can do at home to support your child to progress in Maths.

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But before that, you must know what are the concepts that your 6-year-old kids should learn at this age.

Maths Concepts to Learn for 6 Year-olds Kids

At age 6, your child will continue to develop their counting and calculation skills. Below are some of the important concepts that your kids should learn at this age.

Number and Place Value

At age 6, your child will be able to understand the position of a digit in a number and can tell you the place value of that digit (for example, 34 has 3 tens and 4 ones). They should be able to compare and order numbers and should be able to use this to solve problems. They will also learn to use symbols like more than (>), less than (<), and equals (=) to compare numbers.

Addition and Subtraction

At age 6, children will learn to solve addition and subtraction problems using objects, pictures, and drawings and also solve these problems mentally.

Multiplication and Division

At age 6, children will learn 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 times tables and will learn how to identify odd and even numbers up to 100. They will also learn a variety of methods to solve multiplication and division problems.

At age 6, children will learn how to write fractions in simple calculations and how to find 1/4 2/4 ⅓ 3/4 of quantities and shapes.

At age 6, children will learn to compare and sort common 2D and 3D shapes and everyday objects and continue patterns of shapes. These involve 2D shapes including the number of sides and lines of symmetry, 3D shapes including the number of faces, edges, and vertices.

Measurement

At age 6, children will learn to use standard units to calculate length, mass (weight), capacity, and temperature and compare intervals of time and solve problems related to money.

How to Teach Maths to Your Kids at Home?

You will be amazed to know what a 6-year-old kid is capable of! Kids of this age are becoming readers, writers, and mathematicians. With proper guidance and support from caring adults, they will not only improve their Maths skills but also improve in other areas as well. So, We have explained here some easy ways to encourage your child to progress in Maths when they’re not in the classroom and all from the comfort of your own home.

1. Let Them Help You in Cooking and Baking

A simple way to improve your kid’s Mathematics skills is by encouraging them to help you with baking and cooking. Get them used to with reading the instructions, following recipes, and measuring and weighing the ingredients. This will help them to become familiar with the quantities, fractions, temperatures, and cooking units.

2. Involve in Food Shopping

If you involve your kids in food shopping, it will not only turn out to be a fun activity for you kids but also they can practise Maths through this activity. Encouraging the kids to read food labels, compare the brands and prices, and find the best deals available will help your child to understand the value of money and learn to understand the numbers and prices concept in a better way.

3. Try to Play Maths Games at Home

If you are trying to improve Maths skills and knowledge for your kids, making Maths interesting and fun is the only key. There are plenty of enjoyable games that you can play with your kids such as dominoes, chess, cards, and memory games. These games will test your kids’ Maths skills without them even realising it.

If your kids are using technology on a daily basis, then find some Maths learning apps. Check out some articles that feature all the best learning apps for kids here .

4. Read Books that Consist of Maths

Encouraging the kids to read books that consist of Maths or logic is a better way to improve Maths at home. You will find many fantastic Maths books ranging from addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and shapes to probability if you search on the internet.

5. Encourage Your Kids to Do Some Maths Every Day

To encourage your kid to do a little bit of Maths every day is very important, even though it’s only for 10-15 minutes. It will gradually improve your kids’ skills if they practise Maths regularly.

Here are some Maths problems that will really give your kid’s Maths skills a workout!

In the car, you can ask your child how long it will take to reach your destination based on your speed.

If you are at your child’s favourite shop, ask him to calculate the price of a discounted item he wants to buy and how long it will take to save his pocket money to buy it.

Alternatively, books on Sudoku puzzles and Maths puzzles will be a challenging and fun activity to practise Maths during the weekends and holidays.

6. You Need to Familiarise Yourself with What Your Child Is Currently Learning

What area of Maths your child is currently learning is very important for you to understand. Checking your kid’s homework diaries and chatting with his teachers is the only key. Once you know what your child is currently learning, it will be easier for you to adapt Maths activities at home.

So, these are all the activities that can help you to improve your children's Math as well as problem-solving skills. Visit our website to get hold of articles and worksheets on Maths topics curated for kids of 6 years age.

FAQs on Fun Activities to Boost Maths Skill for 6-Year-Old Kids

1. How to make Maths interesting for a 6-year-old kid?

Maths games are a great way to create excitement and competition in kids. There are a number of great picture books ranging from counting to multiplication, you can introduce these books to your child. Kids love to talk, so ask them interesting Maths questions that consist of more than one answer or more than one solution to make Maths fun for kids.

2. Do digital games improve children's Mathematics skills?

Many researchers have concluded that playing Maths-based games has a real impact on developing strong Maths skills in kids. It not only encourages kids to improve their computing skills and problem-solving skills but also enhances their memory capacity and strategic thinking capacity.

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Common Topics in Math for 6-Year-Olds to Learn

Created: April 18, 2022

Last updated: January 5, 2024

Math isn’t new for six-year-olds since they will likely have learned basic counting and number identification before that. As kids develop confidence in playing with numbers, parents, and tutors can introduce them to more complicated concepts. The article will throw light on some topics that will make children more proficient in math.

Math Topics to Boost 6-Year-Olds’ Math Skills

The ability to tell the time is necessary in our daily lives, yet it may be difficult for kids to master. You should first help your kids understand how time relates to their lives before teaching them to interpret it. With simple activities and games, children will develop an awareness of the passage of time from a young age.

Kids learn about time and seasonal changes throughout their school years. Six-year-olds memorize the hour and half-hour markings of a clock and are able to tell how many minutes comprise an hour and how many hours are in a day. Also, they get to differentiate between the “quarter to” and “half past” concepts. With the help of top math learning sites like Brighterly and math games for 6-year-olds, your child’s time-telling skills will improve.

Educating your kids about money is essential in preparing them for life in the real world. You can introduce physical money, worksheets, or money math games for 6-year-olds to practice skills and enhance their understanding of the concept. Brighterly’s money games, virtual coins, and other activities involving the concept can help your kids learn about money in a fun way.

At six years, pupils should be able to recognize monetary denominations and sum currencies in coin and bill form. Combining whole dollars and cents may be difficult for six-year-olds; however, with constant practice, your kids will appreciate the financial applications of math.

Addition and Subtraction 

When teaching addition and subtraction concepts to kids, you should start with addition first. Most children understand the idea of gaining better than losing, thanks to the interactions with their parents and toys in their toddler years. When they get comfortable with addition, introduce them to subtraction.

But don’t take away toys as a way to teach kids subtraction since the approach can fuel resentment toward learning in children. Instead, use math worksheets for 6-year-olds or play games that subtly teach subtraction and addition. Also, don’t forget about the importance of repetition as a system for reinforcing ideas you’ve introduced to children.

Counting is among the basic math skills 6-year-olds should master, as it paves the way for other math topics on this list. Six-year-olds can count to a great extent, often up to 200, which reveals the vastness of numbers to kids. Counting as a math concept forms the foundation for a more complex mathematics for 6 year old that the your may face in the future. When the kids practice more, they improve their 6 year old math skills.

You can use counting along with your day-to-day activities or just use simple math games. To help your 6 year old struggling with maths, and make them enjoy counting, use math toys or other attractive colorful items. They can arrange items in a line and stand facing the items, counting them aloud from 1 to 10 first before they move to double-digit numbers.

Add fascinating and complex exercises like backward counting to your math for 6-year-olds curriculum. You can use a simple range, like having them count from 10 down to 1 or from 20 to 1. Don’t go above 50 so that the activity won’t get too complex and tedious for the students

Fractions should be more of a visual concept for children than a written one. For example, children may be unable to comprehend what ⅚ means on paper. But they will have no trouble understanding it when you explain that if they eat five slices of pizza out of a six-sliced pizza, they have consumed ⅚th of the whole pizza.

Before moving to more complex fractions, make sure your youngster understands basic fractions such as a half, a whole, and smaller fractions like ⅓, ⅔, etc. Halves (½) and wholes (1) are concepts children quickly grasp with the help of everyday activities. You can help your kids learn the concept of fractions by describing relatable scenarios, like how two half-glasses of Coke produce a full glass.

Geometry is one of the central themes that six-year-old kids should understand because of its prevalence in daily life. Shapes around us are often in 2D or 3D forms, but six-year-olds won’t know the difference without your help. Make it easy for your kids to recognize basic shapes like cylinders, rectangles, squares, circles, and triangles. 

If you want to make your 6-year-old understand geometry better, you can try games where kids try to identify different shapes. A better way to do this is to get involved by showing them shapes you see on everyday objects and asking them to call the shape the image reminded them of. You can then teach them to draw the shapes and show them how different they are.

Another way you can make this happen is by teaching your kids craft-making. You can ask your child to cut a triangular object from a magazine, and then you will draw the real shapes on a cardboard and tell your 6 year old math learner to point to which shape their cut-out is. This is a very creative way for your kids to learn shapes and geometry as part of the 6th grade math curriculum. 

Conclusion 

Maths for a 6 year old can be very challenging because, let’s face it, a lot of numbers and symbols don’t make any sense at the beginning. So it is not out of place that your 6 year old mathematics learner will look to you for help. It is your job to help them figure out this new terrain.

These steps above are geared towards teaching you how to teach 6 year old maths. You can use math manipulatives for a more hands-on approach, but the knowledge of fundamental math topics you need to focus your efforts on is the first step to building your child’s interest in math.

Jessica is a a seasoned math tutor with over a decade of experience in the field. With a BSc and Master’s degree in Mathematics, she enjoys nurturing math geniuses, regardless of their age, grade, and skills. Apart from tutoring, Jessica blogs at Brighterly. She also has experience in child psychology, homeschooling and curriculum consultation for schools and EdTech websites.

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Homeschooling for 6 year olds – A complete Guide

Homeschooling refers to the education of children at home instead of in traditional school. Parents are responsible for their child’s education, regardless of their type of schooling.

The below instructions will guide you through the process of Homeschooling your 6-year-old kids.

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1. prepare your child to be homeschooled.

It takes a lot of hard work and time to homeschool . It will be difficult for your child if they aren’t ready to learn, so it’s best to begin during the summer when they have more free time.

Please encourage them by letting them watch educational TV shows or go on a field trip once a week.

If you find they are having trouble, you can always look up how to help them on the internet.

2. Be encouraging

Parents are the ones who have the authority when it comes to their children’s education, so they should be encouraging them to feel happy and satisfied with what they are doing.

Even if the 6-year-olds are still young, parents can start this by telling them how wonderful they are and how proud their parents are of them.

Furthermore, the parents should not give up on their children’s education just because it is hard. Parents should keep themselves motivated too.

3. Be patient

Aside from being encouraging, the parents need to be patient, so they will not come up with the thought of giving up.

Parents should understand that 6-year-olds are still young and will not be able to learn everything in the blink of an eye.

Allowing themselves to be patient is one way to help their children without forcing them too much.

Remember your actions will decide your future and should not create hate in their minds for schooling altogether.

4. Be creative

Parents should be open to new ideas and not stick with existing ones, which can make things boring for everyone involved.

They should always think outside the box when it comes to studying to keep themselves and their children interested, no matter how tough it may seem at first.

5. Make it fun

Six-year-olds are still very young, so making school fun for them will not be difficult.

Parents should find ways to make their children want to learn and do well in school, such as involving them in other activities such as sports or games.

Even if they are still very young, parents should be careful about how they handle school . They do not have to completely stop everything fun just because it is time for schooling but finding that fine line will be necessary, so the children are more encouraged than anything else.

6. Be involved with your child’s education

It would be difficult for children to learn if their parents were not there to help them every step of the way.

Parents know their children’s personalities and should make it a point that they are involved with what goes on in their children’s schoolwork.

They should ask them questions at home and participate in making the homework plan, among other things.

Educational activities for Homeschooling for 6-year-olds:

This activity will help your child exercise their vocabulary and logical thinking.

You can either make up riddles yourself, or you can look them up online or on Youtube. But if you do this activity with your child, try using simple riddles that the child could probably guess by themselves; remember, this is their first time Homeschooling!

2. Alphabet learning

This activity requires using upper case and lower case letters; you can make your flashcards with the upper case letter on one side and the lower case letter on the other.

Then all you have to do is go through each card, show them both sides of each card, then have them point out which letter matches that side of the card.

You can do this activity by having your child draw something that’s going on in their life right now, it could be a comic strip about what they did at school, or it could be a drawing with stick figures of them doing an activity they enjoy.

This activity will help exercise the child’s creativity and imagination!

This activity will help the child develop their vocabulary and comprehension skills! You can either read them a story or pick out a book that the child might be interested in. Then, after you’re finished reading, ask them questions about what they just read. This will also help them sharpen their memory.

This is an excellent activity for developing the child’s problem-solving skills. You can either do your puzzles with cardboard, or if you want to encourage the child to be more creative on their terms, buy a mystery they probably wouldn’t do on their own.

Curriculum for Homeschooling for 6-year-olds

According to statistics, below is the most suitable curriculum for 6-year-olds..

• Read and write numbers 1-10
• Learn the alphabet in lower and upper case; remember there are two sides to each card so that you can show them both sides.
• Learn about shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle)
• Learn about the five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing).
• Identify weather patterns.
• Learn about different types of animals.
• Learn how to care for pets (feeding, grooming, etc.)
• Learn how to spell their name.
• Learn basic sentence structure.
• Learn the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives).
• Learn the alphabet in upper and lower case.
• Learn how to sound out words (syllables).
• Read and write numbers 1-10.
• Learn how to do puzzles.
• Learn to listen to and follow instructions.
• Learn to problem-solve.
• Learn how to sound out words (phonetic sounds) while reading and writing.

Conclusion – Homeschooling for 6-year-olds

Children learn at different rates; some kids pick things up quickly while others take their time. However, some children may be more interested than others, so if you notice that the child isn’t picking up any of this information after a certain amount of time, then go back to the drawing board and think about how else you could present these concepts to them. Try to have fun with these activities because if the child doesn’t understand what you’re trying to teach them, they probably won’t retain any information.

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Year 6 maths is harder than you might think; and it’s testament to the strength and resilience of children and their primary school class teachers that by the end of the year these 10 and 11 year old children are ready to sit 3 exams in the subject – 2 reasoning and 1 arithmetic SATs paper.

Here at Third Space Learning we’ve been supporting 10 and 11 year old children with maths tuition from the Year 6 maths national curriculum for several years. This article aims to provide UK parents of 10 and 11 year olds with everything they need to support their child with Year 6 maths at home: advice, helpful hints and links to resources and all our free Year 6 maths worksheets and a Year 6 maths test .

Whatever the primary maths scheme of work your school uses ( White Rose maths is a popular one you may have heard of) Year 6 children across the country will broadly be expected to learn the same knowledge and skills by the end of their Year 6 maths lessons.

Even in an ordinary year, with exams looming and pressure mounting, this period can often feel overwhelming to young minds. Combine this with worries over what the approaching move to secondary school will bring and Year 6 can be a challenging time for all – parents included!

But don’t fear, we’re here to take some of that ever-increasing load off and show you the best (and simplest!) ways to help your 10-year-old or your 11-year old with Year 6 maths at home.

What the Year 6 Maths curriculum says

Topics in the year 6 maths programme of study, understanding the changes from year 5 maths to year 6 maths, number and place value in year 6 maths, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in year 6 maths, fractions including decimals and percentages in year 6 maths, ratio and proportion in year 6 maths, algebra in year 6 maths, measurement in year 6 maths, geometry (properties of shape; position and direction) in year 6 maths, statistics in year 6 maths, year 6 maths…sats, sats, sats…, how to answer sats reasoning questions, also in this series….

The principal focus of mathematics teaching in upper key stage 2, especially Year 6 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers – numbers up to 10 million. This should develop the connections that pupils make between multiplication and division with fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio. 

At this stage, pupils should develop their ability to solve a wider range of problems, including increasingly complex properties of numbers and arithmetic, and problems demanding efficient written and mental methods of calculation. 

With this basis in arithmetic, pupils are introduced to the language of algebra as a means for solving a variety of problems. 

Teaching in geometry and measures should build on and extend knowledge developed in number. Teaching should also ensure that pupils classify shapes with increasingly complex geometric properties and that they learn the mathematical vocabulary they need to describe them. 

By the end of year 6, pupils should be fluent in written methods for all four operations, including long multiplication and division, and in working with fractions, decimals and percentages. 

Pupils should read, spell and pronounce all their mathematical terms correctly.

• Number and place value
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Fractions including decimals and percentages
• Ratio & proportion
• Measurement
• Geometry (properties of shapes)
• Geometry (position and direction)

You do not need to worry too much about the detail of what is being taught in each of these topics, but the following guidance will help you help your Year 6 with any of their maths homework and give you a sense of what the questions are asking for.

The entire Year 6 maths curriculum is available from gov.uk .

It’s important to note that some Year 6 maths topics are more suitable than others for working on at home. We’ve highlighted below the ones we think you should probably leave to teachers unless you’re very confident in the approach the school is taking to this topic.

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The good news is that the curriculum is fairly stable by Year 6!

This means that questions such as:

What does my child most need help with?

What are they best at in maths lessons?

Is there anything that I can do to help?

will all have be answered and your child can begin to focus on the two big live events in year 6: the KS2 SATs in May and the upcoming transition from primary to secondary school and the start of quite different Year 7 maths .

Although there are a couple of new ideas that come into play, they aren’t too tricky compared to the Year 5 programme of study.

This year is essentially a consolidation of all the skills your child has learnt in primary school, preparing them for a successful experience in secondary maths lessons, as well as later on in life!

The key is to balance the revision of the basics with the consistent practice of newer concepts, cultivating a mindful approach to exams along the way.

If your Year 6 ever finds maths overwhelming, just take a break from the school work and try to come at it from a different angle. Maths games are brilliant for such times. We’ve got several articles sharing all our best fun maths games , including KS2 maths games , KS1 maths games and KS3 maths games for all maths topics and a set of 35 times tables games you’ll want to bookmark whichever year group you teach!

In Year 6 number and place value simply extends the learning earlier down in the school. Numbers get bigger – from two-digit numbers all the way up to 10 million and smaller – to thousandths of a decimal place; children are expected to be confident both in saying them out loud and in writing them down.

This is something you can practise with your child when you see numbers in the newspapers or even trying to read out part of a phone number or an electricity meter – it’s not as easy as it looks!

One of the best tools for securing the concept of place value is this place value grid which is a cinch to make at home. Or you can try out these place value games and activities .

In Year 6 maths the four operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division – are taught together rather than in pairs. It is assumed by now that children understand the commutativity principle and that division is the opposite of multiplication and, subtraction is the opposite of addition.

Year 6 children learn about and use common factors, common multiples, and prime numbers as well as indices. You will probably notice that your child’s mental calculations improve quite significantly during and they are able to perform much more complex maths in their heads.

In Year 6 maths BODMAS and the order of operations rears its head so encourage your child to learn the acronym, whether its BODMAS or BIDMAS (I = indices).

One of the greatest challenges in this topic is likely to be Year 6 long division which is why we created this guide for parents and kids on short and long division.

Here’s a snapshot of what’s involved…

Different division questions call for different methods of division to solve them, but here is a quick and easy guide to show which method your child should use and when:

• Chunking is best for smaller numbers and arithmetic.
• Short division is great for dividing larger numbers by one digit numbers.
• The long division method is handy for dividing large numbers by numbers with 2 or more digits.

KS2 fractions can prove a hurdle for many children even in Year 6. This fractions for kids article helps to break down the stages children need to learn fractions and it’s a topic that’s worth devoting some time to.

Talking to your child about their Year 6 fractions work will unleash a world of new mathematical terms and processes such as equivalent fractions, comparing and ordering fractions, and writing fractions in their simplest form.

Simplifying fractions just means that we use the lowest possible numbers when we work them out, using our times tables knowledge and division facts to reduce the size of the denominator and numerator.

In year 6 maths lessons children will also learn subtracting fractions and how to work with mixed numbers and how to multiply fractions with different denominators. There’s a lot to cover, so just support your child to work with what they’re learning.

By the end of Year 6, your child will need to know how to convert fractions into decimals and decimals into percentages.

• Converting fractions into decimals : Divide the numerator by the denominator.
• Converting decimals into percentages : Multiply the decimal by 100. For example, 0.79 would become 79%.
• Converting percentages into decimals : Divide the percentage by 100. So, 87% would become 0.87.
• Converting percentages into fractions : Put the percentage amount over 100 (e.g. 75% = 75/100), then simplify it – in this case ¾ .

For more detailed guidance read this article on comparing  fractions decimals and percentages .

The national curriculum puts percentages of amounts and degrees etc into the topic ratio and proportion in Year 6. This is a challenging topic for parents to help with as it’s so easy to confuse children with a different method from the one they’ve been taught.

We’d suggest just working on some simple Year 6 ratio activities like the two below is probably the best way to approach this topic. Speaking frankly, it doesn’t lend itself so well to home support.

Year 6 Ratio activity: Dealing with discounts while sale shopping

When you’re out shopping practise working out sale discounts.

Work out 10% to begin with, before working your way up to multiples of 10% and 5%.

There’s really no substitute for concrete learning when it comes to these concepts – Year 6 maths becomes a lot easier when you practise it in context!

Year 6 Ratio activity: Baking recipes

Find a recipe that serves a lot of people and ask your child to think about how they can make the recipe the right size for you using division and fraction terminology (“ We’ll need half/a quarter/an eighth of this recipe ”).

An example of a maths question could be:

Last week you made a cake that had 8 slices. Unfortunately, this was too big and some of it had to be thrown away!

You want to make another cake this week, but you only need to use half the amount of ingredients.

Last week’s cake recipe:

• 220g butter
• 220g caster sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 80g raspberry jam

Can you work out how much of each ingredient you would need to make a cake half this size?

Can you work out how much of each ingredient you would need to make a cake a quarter of this size?

Again, this is not a topic that we recommend spending too much time on at home with your child. In maths lessons year 6 pupils will be taught simple formulae and then some missing number problems and problems with ‘unknown quantities’.

These are best taught by your child’s class teacher.

In Year 6 children learn to convert units of measure, length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit to a larger unit and vice versa. Also between imperial (miles) and metric units (kilometres)

As a refresher, these are the facts they’ll need to know:

They will also be looking at volume of cubes and cuboids, and comparing area and perimeters of shapes such as parallelograms and triangles.

There are lots of ways to build on your Year 6 child’s measurement lessons at home. Start by highlighting the weights and measurements of everyday kitchen foodstuffs just to show them what 500g looks like or 1 litre.

Measure every member of the family and work out the differences in height. Look at other items and think about what you would use to measure them. For example ear 6 maths tests often seem to include questions about capacity of buckets and most 10 and 11 year old children really struggle with knowing how much a bucket would hold (generally about 2 or 4 litres).

The topic of geometry in Year 6 maths is split into two subtopics: shape and position and direction. The latter is mostly about plotting points on a quadrant so it helps to make sure your child knows the difference between the x-axis (across) and the y-axis (up and down).

Shape can prove a little trickier. Children are expected to compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons. They also use nets to build 3-D shapes.

They will do lots of angles work, starting to use a protractor, and working out, where angles meet and what missing angles amount to. They’ll also start to understand the parts of a circle knowing that the diameter is twice the radius.

Year 6 Geometry activity: Protractor practice

Protractors are often a mystery to primary school age children, so you can clear things up by using them often around the house.

A quick and easy way to handle a protractor is:

• 1: Use a ruler to draw a few different sized angles on a sheet of paper.
• 2: Challenge your child to measure as many as possible in a minute.
• 3. Next, switch roles!
• 4: It’s your turn to measure as many angles as possible, in a different colour pen, for one minute.
• 5: Once all the angles are measured, go back and check for accuracy.
• 6: Whoever got the most angles right wins the game (and perhaps a small reward!).

While drawing angles might seem like straightforward maths for 10-year-olds, it constitutes the first steps towards secondary-level trigonometry.

In Year 6 statistics, children use pie charts and line graphs to solve problems, as well as revising other forms of data representations from pictograms and line graphs to frequency tables. They will also be looking at the mean as an average.

Part of becoming confident in Year 6 maths is being comfortable with a range of mathematical information.

If your child is getting mixed up interpreting data it’s a good idea to go back to basics and have a go at conducting a few surveys around the house before setting out the results in tables and graphs.

Year 6 Statistics Activity: Charting the Weather

Here’s a great activity to do in the rainy months (which shouldn’t be hard to come across in England!) to help with data interpretation through using a real-life example that even helps boost our science understanding.

Dot Your Data: A fun Year 6 maths activity

• Step 1 : Pop a glass outside to collect water.
• Step 2 : Measure the amount that falls each day.
• Step 3 : Record the results in a table.
• Step 4 : After one week, plot the results on a line graph.

When it comes to Year 6 maths, mention of the SATs test is never far away.

For many children this age, the transition into a formal exam year can be stressful, so now is the time to practise working through challenges with a cool head.

As a parent, you might feel under pressure too. Mathematics for children can be a minefield, and when everyone is talking about test scores and booster groups, it can be hard not compare your child’s progress against that of other children.

Every child is different, so your best bet is to focus on your own child’s needs instead of worrying about everyone else (no matter how much they go on about what’s right and wrong for the exams!).

Read more about the KS2 SATS in the following parent guides

• Step by Step to Success in the Year 6 Maths SATs
• Everything Parents Need to Know about SATS
• 29 SATS Revision Tips and Tricks

The KS2 SATs in Maths consists of 3 papers: 1 Arithmetic Paper and 2 Reasoning Papers. The latter tests 10 and 11 year olds ability to reason and problem solve using the maths knowledge and skills they have learnt at primary school. This is the aspect of KS2 maths that a lot of children find hard so the rest of this article gives you some ideas for how to help.

Chances are your child will be practising test questions at school almost daily.

However, at school, the focus will be on working these questions out independently, which leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation.

Most teachers will revisit the harder questions, but it’s a good idea to practise at home so you can identify which questions are causing headaches.

Once you know which ones are problematic, you can work on a strategy to solve them in plenty of time for the exams.

This method isn’t foolproof as the examiners are always thinking up new ways to trip children up but when faced with a problem that seems insoluble it’s worth having a strategy to fall back on. This is what we recommend.

1. Read the whole question

• Find words that you know.
• Find words that you don’t know. Can you work what they mean from what’s around them?

2. Choose which tools to use

• Which operations make sense here? Addition, subtraction, multiplication or division?

3. Try out your tools

• Present work neatly so it’s easier to keep track later.

4. Check that the answer makes sense

• If it does, do a quick check of your work.
• If it doesn’t, work through the steps again.

Simple maths problems to work through with your 10 year old

Bill had three apples and ate two. How many did he have left?

Connor had £5. He spent £3 on lunch. How much money does he have left?

Rachel had 4 dogs. She bought 1 cat. How many pets does she have now?

If you manage to talk about the different ways you could approach the problem this will be very beneficial as dialogue around the process really helps understanding in maths.

Take the time to really dig into the process, and if you get it wrong, treat it as an opportunity to refine the process (rather than giving up).

More complex multi step maths problems for your 11 year old

1. Potatoes cost £1.50 per kg and carrots £1.80 per kg. Jack buys 1½kg of potatoes and ½kg of carrots. How much change does he get from £5? Answer:  £1.85

2. Wishy Washes car wash process 92 cars per day. they make £15 per car. How much money will they have made in 4 days. Answer : £5,520

3. An aeroplane is flying from Birmingham to New York. The distance between these two cities is 5,400km. On the journey the pilot announces “We are 40% of the way through the flight.” How far has the aeroplane travelled? Answer : 2,160 km

For more, see this collection of 35 year 6 maths reasoning questions .

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