Year 6 Place Value

Take your Year 6 class outdoors to actively explore and master place value, number representation, rounding, and negative numbers using hands-on, interactive activities. This lively approach makes maths tangible, memorable, and fun while developing confident calculation and reasoning skills in real-world contexts.

Lesson Plans

Reading and writing numbers up to 100,000

Inspire your Year 6 class with this exciting outdoor maths lesson as they actively read, write, and represent numbers up to 100,000 using natural resources. This hands-on approach ensures a memorable and engaging learning experience, solidifying their understanding of place value and digit values.

Learning objective:

To read, write and represent numbers up to 100,000 and determine the value of each digit.

Representing numbers up to 10 million

Bring your Year 6 class outdoors for an exciting maths lesson where they actively read, write, and represent numbers up to 10,000,000. This hands-on approach strengthens their understanding of place value and digit values, while making learning dynamic, interactive, and highly engaging.

Learning objective:

To read, write and represent numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit.

Comparing numbers to 10 million

Take your Year 6 class outdoors for an exciting maths lesson where they actively compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000. Using hands-on activities, pupils will deepen their understanding of place value and hone their comparison skills while enjoying a lively and interactive learning experience.

Learning objective:

To compare and order numbers to 10,000,000.

Rounding numbers

Engage your Year 6 class in an exciting outdoor maths lesson as they master rounding numbers. Through hands-on activities like physical number lines and a true/false challenge, pupils will build a deeper understanding of place value and develop confident estimation skills in a lively and interactive way.

Learning objective:

To round any number.

Using negative numbers in context

Inspire your Year 6 class with this exciting outdoor maths lesson as they actively master understanding and using negative numbers in context. This hands-on approach ensures a memorable and engaging learning experience, solidifying their ability to calculate intervals across zero through a life-sized number line and temperature challenges.

Learning objective:

To understand and use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero.

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