Year 6 Maths Curriculum
Year 6 maths curriculum
Long division and the order of operations, fractions with different denominators, ratio and proportion, algebra, the mean, pie charts, area of triangles, volume of cuboids and all four quadrants.
26 lessons, 157 units, 2,292 questions. £160 once for all 64 lessons, lifetime access. Or £5.99 a lesson.
Year 6 is the SATs year. Ratio, algebra and averages arrive, and the papers are sat in May.
What Year 6 covers
- Long division, and using the order of operations across all four operations
- Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions with different denominators
- Ratio and proportion, and solving problems involving percentages
- Simple formulae, linear sequences, and missing number problems written algebraically
- Area of triangles and parallelograms, and the volume of cubes and cuboids
- Finding unknown angles in triangles, quadrilaterals and regular polygons
- Coordinates in all four quadrants, reflections and translations
- Interpreting and constructing pie charts and line graphs, and calculating the mean
Year 6 is when the Key Stage 2 national tests are sat, in the May of the year. It is also the heaviest year of the curriculum by a distance, which is why this year carries 26 of the 64 lessons.
The 26 lessons that cover it
Grouped by topic block. 157 units and 2,292 practice questions between them. Numbers are positions in the course teaching order, so they jump within a year. Every lesson is a link to its listing.
Try one Year 6 question
Pitched at the level lesson 13 reaches, not where it starts. If your child gets it, that lesson can be skipped.
Work out 5 + 3 × 4².
Show the answer
53. Do 4² = 16, then 3 × 16 = 48, then add 5.
Every lesson in the course has a check question like this in the learning order tool, so you can test before you buy.
What a lesson looks like
Two units as your child sees them. The method on the left, revealed a line at a time. The questions on the right, answered on paper and checked on screen.
The SATs papers, sat this May
Every lesson on this page is pointed at the same three papers, sat in the May of Year 6. This is how the marks split.
marks across three papers. A 30 minute arithmetic paper worth 40, then two 40 minute reasoning papers worth 70 between them.
of those marks come from number, ratio and algebra. Shape, measures and statistics take the rest.
shape, measures or statistics marks on the arithmetic paper. It is 40 marks of pure calculation.
Free KS2 maths SATs past papersScaled score converterYear 6 maths curriculum
Check where they are first
Three free ways to find out whether Year 6 is the right place to start.
Sixteen topics, adaptive. It tells you which lessons your child is ready for and which they are not.
Find their level →Free, no emailPractice questionsFresh questions every reload, three difficulty levels. The quickest way to see where the gaps are.
Open the questions →Free downloadTopic checklist and trackerOne hundred and twelve skills to tick off, plus a tracker listing every lesson in teaching order.
Download it →Where this year sits
Four years, Year 3 up to the papers in Year 6.
Questions about Year 6
Is Year 6 the right start for a child aged 10 or 11?
Usually. Age is the starting guess and the free questions are the check. If your child finds the first two lessons easy, move up a year. If they struggle with the first one, drop back to Year 5.
How long does Year 6 take?
26 lessons at two a week is about 13 weeks, and most families spread it over a term or more, because each lesson holds more questions than one sitting needs. Stop a lesson once it has landed and pick up the next.
What comes after Year 6?
The SATs papers in May, then the sixteen lessons past Key Stage 2 in the Complete Maths Course, which take a child into Year 7 work.
Does Year 6 maths cover the 11+?
It covers the Year 6 part. The 11+ papers test the maths taught up to the end of Year 6, and the harder papers go further, into algebra and sequences. Our guide to 11+ maths at home goes through the 16 areas the papers test, and the 11+ maths course page sets all 80 lessons out as a 40-week plan.
Can I buy just this year?
Yes. Every lesson above is £5.99 on its own, so Year 6 is 26 lessons. Or buy the whole course once for £160 and get every year.
See inside the course
Fifteen seconds recorded from the real lessons, so you can see what your child works through before you buy.
Buy the whole KS2 course once for £160 and you get every year, in teaching order, on one page. Or buy this year's lessons one at a time above at £5.99 each.
There is a guide written for you: how a lesson runs at the kitchen table, the words you say, and how this compares with White Rose and Maths - No Problem!
Every lesson sits in the school year the National Curriculum first teaches it, and lessons are revisited and extended after that. Lesson numbers are positions in the teaching order, so a year's lessons are not one unbroken run. This is a maths teacher's own scheme of work mapped onto the school years, not an accredited course.