Challenging maths (upper KS2)

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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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.

  1.  Tom says 58740 ÷ 5 has no remainder. Do you agree with Tom? Explain your answer.

 

  1.  Tom says 621 ÷ 3 has no remainder. Do you agree with Tom? Explain your answer.

 

  1.  Tom says 6294 ÷ 6 has no remainder. Do you agree with Tom? Explain your answer.

 

  1.  Tom says 8748 ÷ 4 has no remainder. Do you agree with Tom? Explain your answer.

 

  1.  Tom says 2133 ÷ 9 has no remainder. Do you agree with Tom? Explain your answer.

 

 

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This has been a fantastic range of resources to keep my confident mathematicians busy as extension tasks. Thank you.

Maryse Yeo

10/04/2020

5

08/04/2020

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19/03/2020

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This has been a fantastic range of resources to keep my confident mathematicians busy as extension tasks. Thank you.

Maryse Yeo

10/04/2020

5

08/04/2020

5

19/03/2020

5

5