Schoolsweb
Listen

Link to the DfCFS home page
The Standards Site - Raising Standards

This website is changing: Find out more.

Strand Quick Find

Year 6 - Counting and understanding number

Blue emphasised text signifies end-of-year (EOY) objectives within Mathematics and Early Learning Goals (ELG) within Foundation Stage. In Years 1 to 6, Literacy does not have end-of-year (EOY) objectives.

  • Find the difference between a positive and a negative integer, or two negative integers, in context
  • Use decimal notation for tenths, hundredths and thousandths; partition, round and order decimals with up to three places, and position them on the number line
  • Express a larger whole number as a fraction of a smaller one (e.g. recognise that 8 slices of a 5-slice pizza represents eight fifths or 1three fifths pizzas); simplify fractions by cancelling common factors; order a set of fractions by converting them to fractions with a common denominator
  • Express one quantity as a percentage of another (e.g. express £400 as a percentage of £1000); find equivalent percentages, decimals and fractions
  • Solve simple problems involving direct proportion by scaling quantities up or down