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Year Six: Spring Term. Old Curriculum

This resource from Hamilton Trust contains two weekly plans, teaching sequences and classroom resources. They cover place value, ordering numbers, measures and handling data. The detailed teaching sequences include differentiated activity ideas, suggested resources and notes on progression and misconceptions in the specific areas. Objectives are:

Week 1

  • Multiply and divide any number from 1 to 10000 by 10, 100 or 1000 and understand the effect
  • Multiply and divide decimals by 10 or 100

Week 2

  • Select and use standard units of measure, to two places of decimals
  • Convert between units of measurement, using decimals to two places
  • Read and interpret scales on a range of measuring instruments; comparing readings on different scales
  • Construct and interpret frequency tables, bar charts with grouped discreet data, and line graphs
  • Interpret pie charts 
  • Describe and interpret results and solutions to problems using the mode, range, median and mean

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