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KS2 SATs revision: Shape (2)

With KS2 SATs coming up soon it is about time I added a few more worksheets to help. This one shows a typical couple of questions on shape. They are fairly straightforward and would be an easy way to collect marks towards Level 4.

The first question is really testing whether the terms regular hexagon and equilateral triangle are understood. Each of these will have sides of equal length.

The second question covers several concepts, including measuring area, lines of symmetry and the terms hexagon and vertices.

From these questions it is easy to see why there are sometimes discrepancies in marking. There are many answers to drawing a shape with the same area as X. Markers of the test papers would have to spend time counting the triangles to make sure, something many would be reluctant to do as it takes time and they will want to get them marked as quickly as possible, so a complex shape may be dismissed. So, keep the answers simple and obvious.

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Year 6 maths SAT questions

It is about this time of year that schools intensify their year 6 revision for the KS2 SATs. The types of question that come up are fairly predictable and follow a similar layout each year. It is well worthwhile, therefore, to let your children have a practice at the style of questions they are likely to come across on the test.

We have a good selection of SAT questions which can be printed free of charge, including pages on:

writing numbers

making mathematical statements true

completing number sentences

number problems

time problems

symmetry

Why not have a look at our Year 6 ‘Booster’ pages for SATs?

Year 6 maths worksheet: Number sequences (2)

This is the second page which looks at trickier number sequences. It includes a couple of questions which use negative numbers. Children are asked to predict the next two numbers in the sequence and then write in words what the rule for the sequence is. The page includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, square numbers and halving, so it is quite a mixed bag and as always it is interesting to see how children approach a task which is one of the early stages of algebra.

This page can be found in our Year 6 maths worksheets, under the heading of Using and Applying Maths.

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Year 6 maths worksheets: percentages

Percentages can case problems for children of all ages, not just in year 6, the age group that this page is targeted at. The percentage sign % is all around us when we go shopping, usually with money off, but it can often cause confusion with even with adults. Children should be able to relate percentages to fractions and know that:

one whole = 100%

one half = 50%

one quarter = 25%

one tenth = 10%

one hundredth = 1%.

With this knowledge they should be able to work out most problems that they come across, including those on the worksheet here.

How to do percentages

Maths worksheet: Converting metric units

We have a growing number of worksheets on measurement and in particular the metric system. This is about as hard as it gets for converting larger metric units to smaller ones. The larger units all include decimals and a good knowledge of multiplying by 10, 100 or 1000 is needed.

As a special treat the last question is really tricky; How many centimetres in 1.9 kilometres. I imagine that there are quite a lot of adults who would struggle with that one, but taken in logical steps it proves to be not so difficult. Find the number of metres in 1.9 kilometres, then find the number of centimetres in that amount. easy eh. It is quite interesting to look at other distances in terms of centimetres: journey home from school, length of a football pitch etc which would make for an interesting investigation.

This can be found in our Year 6 Measuring section

Year 6 Convert larger metric units to smaller (pg 2)

Year 6 SATs questions

January is usually the time when schools start looking seriously at the Key Stage 2 tests and what needs doing to get the best possible scores. Our Year 6 ‘Booster’ pages can help a great deal with this. Part of this resource looks in particular at time, with lots of questions matching those found in the tests. We have four pages of questions involving finding how long it is from one time to another, the 24 hour clock, calendars and interprteting charts.

Try the year 6 SATs questions.

Year 6 Booster worksheets

January is the time of year that many parents and teachers start to look for extra resources for children to use in preparation for the KS2 tests.

This page is one of several imitating the style of the test questions, once again concentrating on place value and the knowledge that addition and subtraction are inverse.

For example, question 3 asks: ? + 25 = 42.

This can be worked out by subtracting 25 from 42, or by counting on from 25 to 42.

Excellent practice for the key Stage 2 tests!

This worksheet and other similar pagers can be found in our Year 6 Booster section of the site, written specifically to help with those tests!

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Year 6 maths worksheet: extending number sequences

Number sequences are still a very important part of maths in Year 6 as they begin to lead on to algebra. Here we have a page where the next two numbers need to be added to the sequence and then a quick explanation of what the rule for the sequence is, in words.

The best way to tackle these is to work out what is happening from the first number to the second: is it getting bigger? By how much? etc and then see if this also applies from the second to the third number, and so on. When it is an addition or subtraction this is quite straightforward. However, if it is a multiplication or division (including doubling and halving) this is harder to spot. With addition and subtraction the difference between numbers stays the same; with multiplication the difference increases.

This page can be found in our Year 6 maths worksheets, in the Using and Applying Maths section.

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Multiply a decimal by a single digit (2)

Here we have two more pages of practice at multiplying a decimal by a single digit. The first six questions on each page are straightforward enough but the later questions may prove to be trickier.

For example: 8 x ? = 3.2 could appear to be quite difficult to work out. Because 3.2 is a smaller than 8 the missing number must be less than 1. if tables are known then 8 x 4 = 32 is known and it should be easy to then work out that 8 x 0. 4 = 3.2.

These two worksheets can be found in our Year 6 Knowing Number facts section, along with more pages on multiplying, doubling and halving.

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Multiplying a decimal by a single digit

Some quick mental arithmetic work here, ideal for homework. Multiplying 0.6 by 7 is not really any harder than multiplying 6 by 7, as long as you have a good understanding of place value.

Watch out for a common error with these, an example of which is:

0.8 x 7 = 0.56

In this case, whilst the times table is known what to do about the decimal point remains a mystery. if you come across this error it would be a very good idea to go back to basics and look at multiplying and dividing by 10 across the decimal point.

This is a good page for year 6 revision but could be used by younger children who have a sound understanding of decimals. It can be found in our year 6 Knowing number facts section.

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