Developing your child’s mathematical skills

Year 5 and 6

Addition

At the end of Year 5, your child should be able to use efficient written methods to add whole numbers and decimals with up to two places

At the end of Year 6, your child should be able to use efficient written methods to add whole numbers and decimals with up to two places in a range of contexts

Methods of addition

An empty number line

Partitioning

Column – most significant digit first

least significant digit first

carrying

Subtraction

At the end of Year 5, your child should be able to use efficient written methods to subtract whole numbers and decimals with up to two places

At the end of Year 6, your child should be able to use efficient written methods to subtract whole numbers and decimals with up to two places in a range of contexts

Methods of subtraction

Empty number line

Decomposition

Column

Have a go!add-sub.rtf

Multiplication

At the end of Year 5, your child should be able to refine and use efficient written methods to multiply HTU ×U, TU ×TU, and U.t ×U

At the end of Year 6, your child should be able to use efficient written methods to multiply integers and decimals by a one-digit integer, and to multiply two-digit and three-digit integers by a two-digit integer

Methods of multiplication

Times tables & related facts

Partitioning

Grid Method

Have a go!

times.rtf

Division

At the end of Year 5, your child should be able to refine and use efficient written methods to divide HTU ÷ U, TU ÷ U

At the end of Year 6, your child should be able to use efficient written methods to divide integers and decimals by a one (and two) digit integer

Methods of division

Inverse of times tables and related facts

Partitioning

Short division

Chunking

Have a go!

div.rtf

How to help your child

Develop their mental calculation skills by practising complements to 100, times tables, related division facts

Do a ‘wrong’ calculation – ask them to figure out what has happened

Involve them in ‘real life’ problems e.g. working out the cost of a meal if you are eating out