Year 6 Maths Home Learning - 01/03/21 - 05/03/21

Hello to my amazing Year 6 class! I hope you are all well and keeping safe. It was fantastic to see so many of you on our Zoom call last week. Remember if you have an idea for our next zoom call, make sure you email your idea over to me before Tuesday 2nd March. If you do send me an idea via email, it MUST come from an adult’s email address. Our next Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday 3rd March at 1:30pm, I hope to see you all there.

I can see from all the fantastic work I am receiving that you are all working incredibly hard and I am so proud of you. Remember, you need to be submitting at least one piece of work to me once a week so I can have a look at your incredible work, provide feedback and post your work on our Learning Gallery. This will be your last week of online learning, you can do this Year 6! I am so excited that we will all be together again on Monday 8th March and can’t wait to have you all back in the classroom.

Below are your Maths remote learning activities for this week.

Monday 1st March 2021

Our Warm Ups this week are going to focus on calculating missing angles in quadrilaterals and triangles.

Remember the angles of within a triangle add up to 180 degrees and the angles within a quadrilateral add up to 360 degrees.

Please watch the video clip to support you with today’s warm up activity.

  1. Warm Up

  2. Warm Up Answers

Big? Can I read scales when measuring volume?

Star Words: Volume, cubic units, capacity, litres, millilitres, scales

During today’s lesson, we re going to revise what you may already now about volume and investigate reading scales. By the end of today’s lesson, you will be confident with reading scales at different intervals.

Please click here to begin today’s lesson.

I would now like you to challenge yourself to answer these reasoning and problem solving questions.

Remember to check your answers.


Tuesday 2nd March 2021

  1. Warm Up

  2. Warm Up Answers

Big? Can I investigate and explain cubed numbers?

Star Words: square number, squared, equal factors, product, cube number, cubed, property

During today’s lesson we will be exploring cubed units. We will investigate what we mean by cube numbers and relate this to our work on volume. By the end of the lesson, you will be able to explain, draw and find cube numbers.

Please click here to begin today’s lesson.

I would now like you to challenge yourself to complete this activity.

Remember to check your answers.



Times Tables
Big? Can I reason and problem solve using me 4 and 8 times table?

Check out a video I made via Loom

Here is the PowerPoint we have just gone through together.

Please complete the following activities:

  1. 4 Times Table Problem Solving Activity

  2. 4 Times Table Problem Solving Answers

  3. 8 Times Table Problem Solving Activity

  4. 8 Times Table Problem Solving Answers

Wednesday 3rd March 2021

  1. Warm Up

  2. Warm Up Answers

Big? Can I estimate the volume of objects?

Star Words: Volume, cube, cuboid, centimetre, cubed

During today’s lesson, we will be combining our new knowledge of cubic units and our work from Monday on volume. We will work on understanding what cubic centimetre looks like in real life and have a go at estimating the volume of objects we see every day.

Please click here to begin today’s lesson.

I would now like you to have a go at this activity to consolidate your learning.

Remember to check your answers.



Thursday 4th March 2021

World Book day

Please see the English Home Learning Blog for activities linked with World Book Day.

Friday 5th March 2021

  1. Warm Up

  2. Warm Up Answers

Big? Can I describe volume in cubic units?

Star Words: Volume, measure, cubed, height, length, width

During today’s lesson, we will use our knowledge from yesterday to find the volume of different shapes. We will start by looking at the three different dimensions of real life objects and then use measurements to help us find volume. By the end of the lesson, you will begin to be able to find the volume of different 3D shapes.

Please click here to begin today’s lesson.

I would now like you to challenge yourself to complete these reasoning and problem solving questions.

Check your answers.


Arithmetic

Big ? Can I add and subtract fractions?

Check out a video I made via Loom

Here is the PowerPoint we have gone through together.

Please complete the following activity to consolidate your learning:

  1. Adding and Subtracting Fractions Activity

  2. Adding and Subtracting Fractions Answers

Year 6Lydia Gallagher