Maths

Autumn 1

🔢 Year 6 Maths: Our Learning Journey

Over the first 7 weeks, Year 6 will be building on their mathematical knowledge and developing the skills they will need throughout the year. We will be following the White Rose Maths scheme, with a focus on understanding, explaining and applying mathematical ideas.

Our lessons will encourage children to be curious mathematicians who can explore, investigate, reason and solve problems.

📚 What will we be learning?

During these first seven weeks, our learning will focus on the early Year 6 White Rose Maths blocks:

🔢 Place Value

We will begin by exploring numbers up to 10 million. Children will:

• Read, write and represent large numbers.
• Understand the value of each digit in a number.
• Compare and order numbers.
• Use number lines to represent numbers.
• Round numbers to different degrees of accuracy.
• Develop confidence when working with negative numbers.
• Solve problems involving place value and large numbers.

➕ The Four Operations

We will develop our fluency with the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Children will:

• Use written methods accurately and efficiently.
• Apply their knowledge to increasingly challenging calculations.
• Solve multi-step problems.
• Estimate and check whether answers are sensible.
• Use their knowledge of factors, multiples and primes.
• Develop their ability to explain and justify their methods.

🧩 Factors, Multiples and Primes

We will investigate the relationships between numbers and learn to:

• Identify factors and multiples.
• Recognise prime numbers.
• Find common factors and common multiples.
• Use mathematical vocabulary accurately.
• Apply these skills when solving problems.

🧠 Being a Mathematical Thinker

Maths isn't just about getting the right answer!

We will spend time developing our ability to:

Reason – explain why an answer is correct.

Problem solve – choose the best strategy to tackle a problem.

Make connections – spot links between different areas of mathematics.

Explain our thinking – use mathematical vocabulary to communicate our ideas.

Check our work – look for mistakes and decide whether our answers are reasonable.

Work collaboratively – share ideas and learn from different approaches.

✏️ Our Year 6 Maths toolkit

We will be developing our confidence with:

• Place value
• Rounding
• Negative numbers
• Addition and subtraction
• Multiplication and division
• Factors and multiples
• Prime numbers
• Written calculation methods
• Mental calculation strategies
• Multi-step problems
• Mathematical reasoning
• Problem solving