Year 6 Maths Problem Solving & Reasoning – ready-to-teach lesson using numbers to 10,000,000, with editable PowerPoint, pupil worksheet, answers and teacher overview.

What’s included

• Editable PowerPoint presentation with retrieval, teacher modelling, guided practice, independent practice, reasoning, challenges and an exit ticket
• Pupil worksheet with structured problem-solving and reasoning activities
• Teacher answer sheet with answers and guidance, including open-ended questions
• Teacher overview with lesson timings, teaching notes, common misconceptions, differentiation and assessment opportunities

Lesson focus

This Year 6 maths lesson brings together the key number and place value skills taught throughout the first week of the sequence.

Pupils use their knowledge of numbers to 10,000,000 to:

• Solve place-value mystery number problems
• Use clues to identify possible numbers
• Compare and explain numbers using place value
• Apply rounding knowledge to problem-solving situations
• Identify and correct common misconceptions
• Explore Always, Sometimes or Never statements
• Explain and justify mathematical reasoning
• Find multiple possible solutions to open-ended problems
• Apply their knowledge to a Week 1 Mega Challenge

The lesson is designed to move pupils beyond simply finding an answer and towards explaining how they know their answer is correct.

Ideal for

• Year 6 maths
• KS2 maths
• Whole-class teaching
• Guided practice
• Independent work
• Maths intervention
• Reasoning and problem solving
• Revision and SATs preparation
• End-of-week consolidation

This resource forms part of a structured Year 6 Maths sequence covering the Number & Place Value objectives in a logical progression.

All resources are editable, practical and designed to be ready to teach with minimal preparation.