In Key Stage 2, the accelerated programme can continue, as well as including
more challenging problems and extended pieces of work. Termly plans should still
ensure that able pupils are taught a broad, balanced mathematics curriculum.
The table below illustrates part of a 'typical' Year 6 termly plan for mathematics
with enhanced provision for able pupils. The extra objectives are drawn from
the Year 7 draft Framework. The programme has been supplemented with enrichment
activities that develop higher order thinking and problem solving skills. These
'challenges' are best linked to the main class topic.
The Alternative multiplication (Year 6) from this guidance illustrates how the main Year 6 teaching programme on multiplication can be supplemented for able pupils. While most pupils are consolidating their skills in using a written method for multiplication, able pupils might investigate other written methods for long multiplication.
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Place value, ordering
and rounding
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Objectives: children
will be taught to...
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- Multiply and divide
decimals by 10 or 100, and integers by 1000, and explain the effect.
Extension: Objectives from Y7
- Understand and
use decimal notation and place value.
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Using a calculator
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Objectives: children
will be taught to...
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- Develop calculator
skills and use a calculator effectively.
Enrichment suggestion
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2-3 (10 days)
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Understanding multiplication
and division
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Objectives: children
will be taught to...
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- Understand and
use the relationships between the four operations, and the principles
of the arithmetic laws.
Extension: Objective from Y7
- Express simple
functions at first in words and then in symbols, and use simple function
machines.
Enrichment suggestion
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Mental calculation
strategies (x and ÷)
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Objectives: children
will be taught to...
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- Use related facts
and doubling or halving: e.g. halve an (even) number, double the other; multiply
by 25, e.g. by x100, then ÷4.
Enrichment suggestion
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- Extend mental
methods (to decimals).
Enrichment suggestion
- Make five numbers
(no.61)
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Pencil and paper
procedures (x and ÷)
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Objectives: children
will be taught to...
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- Approximate first. Use
informal pencil and paper methods to support, record or explain x and
÷.
Enrichment suggestion
- Alternative
multiplication (see p.14)
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- Extend written
methods to ThHTU x U and short multiplication involving decimals.
Extension: Objective from Y7
- Extend to decimals
with 2 d.p.
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Money and 'real
life' problems
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Objectives: children
will be taught to...
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- Use all four operations
to solve money or 'real life' problems.
Enrichment suggestion
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- Choose appropriate
operations/calculation methods. Explain working.
Enrichment suggestion
- Franco's fast
food (no.67)
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Making decisions, checking
results
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Objectives: children
will be taught to...
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- Check by estimating.
Use inverse operation, including with a calculator.
Enrichment suggestion
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