Year 6 Fractions

Take your Year 6 class on an engaging outdoor maths journey where they actively master simplifying, comparing, ordering, and calculating with fractions and mixed numbers. Through hands-on investigations, interactive challenges, and practical problem-solving activities, pupils will deepen their understanding, build confidence, and make learning fractions tangible, memorable, and fun.

Lesson Plans

Using common factors to simplify fractions

Enable your Year 6 class to master simplifying fractions with this exciting outdoor maths lesson. Pupils will confidently identify common factors and divide to find the simplest form, making the process both engaging and clear through hands-on factor bugs and fraction representations.

Learning objective:

To simplify fractions.

Comparing and ordering fractions

Take your Year 6 class outdoors for an engaging maths lesson where they master comparing and ordering fractions. Pupils will create equivalent fractions, apply their understanding by arranging fractions in physical lines, and justify their reasoning through a lively, competitive plenary game.

Learning objective:

To compare and order fractions.

Adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers

Challenge your Year 6 class with this hands-on outdoor maths lesson focused on adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers. Through interactive ‘fraction stations,’ pupils will apply their understanding of equivalent fractions and justify their reasoning, developing a confident and practical grasp of the concepts.

Learning objective:

To add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers.

Multiplying fractions and mixed numbers

Take your Year 6 class outdoors for an engaging maths lesson on multiplying fractions and mixed numbers by integers and fractions. Pupils will apply multiple methods to solve multiplication problems and use their correct answers to build a tower challenge, reinforcing a confident and practical understanding of the concepts.

Learning objective:

To multiply fractions and mixed numbers by integers and fractions.

Dividing fractions by integers

Challenge your Year 6 class with this hands-on outdoor maths lesson as they master dividing fractions by integers. Through interactive obstacle courses and bar model activities, pupils will apply their skills in practical ways, strengthening their understanding and confidence.

Learning objective:

To divide fractions by integers.

Calculating fractions of any amount

Engage your Year 6 class in an exciting outdoor maths lesson as they explore calculating fractions of an amount. Using hands-on problem-solving activities, pupils will work practically through challenges that deepen their understanding and make this core concept tangible and memorable.

Learning objective:

To calculate fractions of an amount.

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