Framework for teaching mathematics

Year 6 

Measures, shape and space

Yearly teaching programmes, shown below, are taken from the relevant section of the Framework for teaching mathematics: Reception to Year 6. The numbers, in brackets, are page references to the relevant supplement of examples in the Framework which you can download by clicking on an icon in the 'Downloads' box on the left of this page.

Links to Unit Plans which cover specific teaching objectives are indicated by the pointer

Measures (p.90-101)

• Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, mm, kg, g, l, ml, cl), including their abbreviations, and relationships between them. Convert smaller to larger units (e.g. m to km, cm or mm to m, g to kg, ml to l) and vice versa.
  Autumn Unit 9, Spring Unit 9
  Know imperial units (mile, pint, gallon, lb, oz).
  Autumn Unit 10
  Know rough equivalents of lb and kg, oz and g, miles and km, litres and pints or gallons. (p.91)
  Autumn Unit 9, Autumn Unit 10, Spring Unit 9, Summer Unit 5
• Suggest suitable units and measuring equipment to estimate or measure length, mass or capacity.
  Autumn Unit 9, Spring Unit 9
  Record estimates and readings from scales to a suitable degree of accuracy. (p.93,95)
  Autumn Unit 10, Spring Unit 9
• Calculate the perimeter and area of simple compound shapes that can be split into rectangles. (p.97)
  Autumn Unit 8, Spring Unit 8, Summer Unit 3, Summer Unit 7
• Appreciate different times around the world. (p.99,101)
  Autumn Unit 9

Shape and space (p.102-111)

• Describe and visualise properties of solid shapes such as parallel or perpendicular faces or edges.
  Classify quadrilaterals, using criteria such as parallel sides, equal angles, equal sides... (p.103,109)
  Autumn Unit 8
• Make shapes with increasing accuracy.
  Visualise 3-D shapes from 2-D drawings and identify different nets for a closed cube. (p.105)
  Spring Unit 8, Summer Unit 3
• Recognise where a shape will be after reflection:
  in a mirror line touching the shape at a point (sides of shape not necessarily parallel or perpendicular to the mirror line);
  in two mirror lines at right angles (sides of shape all parallel or perpendicular to the mirror line).
  Spring Unit 5 Part 2, Summer Unit 3
  Recognise where a shape will be after two translations. (p.107)
  Autumn Unit 10, Summer Unit 3
• Read and plot co-ordinates in all four quadrants. (p.109)
  Autumn Unit 10, Summer Unit 3, Summer Unit 11
• Recognise and estimate angles.
  Spring Unit 8
  Use a protractor to measure and draw acute and obtuse angles to the nearest degree.
  Spring Unit 8, Summer Unit 3, Summer Unit 11
  Check that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180°: for example, by measuring or paper folding.
  Spring Unit 8
  Calculate angles in a triangle or around a point.
  Spring Unit 8, Summer Unit 3
  Recognise where a shape will be after a rotation through 90° about one of its vertices. (p.111)
  Spring Unit 5 Part 2

NOTE
Key objectives are highlighted in bold type.