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Calculating perimeters
A Year 5 and 6 printable worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child practise calculating perimeters.
To find the perimeter of a shape you must add up the lengths of each of the sides. Can your child calculate the perimeters of these common shapes?
To find the perimeter of a shape you must add up the lengths of each of the sides. Can your child calculate the perimeters of these common shapes?
Estimate volume
Look at these containers. Which do you think has the greatest volume? (Think about their real-life size by considering what is inside.) Put them in order from smallest to largest volume. Estimate the volume in cm3, then calculate the volume to see how accurate you were.
Multiplying decimal numbers by one-digit numbers
If you are multiplying a decimal by a one-digit number, it is a good idea to multiply the decimal by 10 first to make the calculation simpler. Don’t forget to divide the answer by 10, too! Use this method to help you work out these sums.
Using a calculator to solve problems
Mark, Katy and Harriet are looking for bargains in the New Year sales. Can you help them make their purchases, using a calculator to help you?
Sums investigation
How many different addition number sentences containing two-digit numbers can you make with these cards?
Reading the 24-hour clock
A KS2 maths worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child learn how to tell the time using the 24-hour clock.
Producing a line graph
See if you can buy or borrow a thermometer for this activity. Put the thermometer outside your home somewhere safe. Take a reading of the thermometer at the following times. Write the temperature in each blank box in degrees Celsius or centigrade. Now plot a line graph with your findings. How are temperature and time of day linked?
Interpreting a line graph
This line graph shows how the temperature outside Mary’s house changes over the course of one day. Can you read the graph and answer the following questions?
Solving proportion problems
This recipe is for a fish pie that feeds four people. Sue needs to make the fish pie to feed six people. How much will she need of each ingredient? You can use a calculator for this problem.
Number sequences including decimals and negative numbers
These tricky number sequence include decimals and negative numbers. Can you work out what the numbers in the blank lily pads should be?
Finding percentages of quantities: multiples of 10
If you need to find 30%, 40%, 60%, 70%, 80% or 90% of a quantity, just find 10% of the quantity and then multiply it by 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 or 9. Use this method to work out these sums.
Finding percentages of quantities: 10%, 20%, 25% and 50%
A KS2 maths worksheet created by a primary school teacher to help your Year 6 child with percentages and how to find 10%, 20%, 25% and 50% of quantities.
Finding percentages of quantities: 5% and 10%
When you want to find 5% of a quantity, just find 10% and then halve it. Use this method to work out these sums.
Decimals: doubling and halving
When doubling and halving decimals it is sometimes easier to imagine them as two-digit numbers. See if you can double and halve the following decimals, using the knowledge you already have of doubling and halving other numbers.
Weight problems challenge
Can you solve these weight problems? To help you, you might need to change kg into g.
Ratio problems
Ratio shows us the relationship between two numbers or quantities. Can you solve these ratio problems? Use some coloured counters to help with these problems if you need to.
Proportion problems
One in every three of these cupcakes is made with vanilla. Two in every three are made with chocolate. Can you solve these proportion problems? Use coloured counters if you get stuck with these
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Drawing shapes: angles and sides
Can you draw these shapes: a shape that has 2 right angles and five sides; a six-sided shape that has a line of symmetry; an oblong – make one set of sides double the length of the other.
Primary geometry: shape and space
Do you know your hexagons from your heptagons, your pentagonal pyramids from your octagonal prisms? From 2D shapes to angles and symmetry our seventy-page Primary Geometry: shape and space learning pack covers all aspects of the national curriculum (Shape and Space) and will ensure your child can use a protractor, translate a shape and look for a mirror line. Challenge them to a game of 3D shape dominoes, make a right-angle measurer and get started!
Weight word problems
Can you work out these weight word problems? Remember that there are 1000 grams in a kilogram...