Help your children understand the number system better with this series of 'Decimal Place Value' lessons for Year 6. They will recap what the value of each digit in numbers up to ten million represent, as well as the value of digits in numbers with up to three decimal places. Once this is established, they will learn to order, round and use decimals through a variety of activities and games.

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

Each lesson includes an easy-to-follow plan, an informative and engaging slide show for the teaching input, and differentiated worksheets.

#Lesson1ReadingandWriting

Kick-start this scheme of work with a look at large numbers with up to seven digits! The slides guide your class through reading and writing numbers in both numerals and words, identifying the value of each digit as they do so. They will start to order and compare large numbers too. Their independent learning activity has some fun differentiated crosswords to reinforce their learning, as well as a matching and ordering activity.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Crossword puzzles
Number cards
Blank number cards

#Lesson2DecimalPlaces

This lesson teaches your class to identify the value of each digit in numbers with up to three decimal places. They will read decimals in words and numerals, and use their place value knowledge to start comparing numbers with up to three decimal places. The main activity has a fun board game to further challenge their decimal place value understanding, as well as fun game that challenges children to compete to create the highest number they can from digits they generate themselves.

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Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Game board sheet
Question cards
Spinner
Score cards
Digit cards
Game cards

#Lesson3OrderingDecimals

Children will consolidate their decimal place value understanding in this lesson as they start to order and compare sets of numbers with up to three decimal places. The slides go through plenty of chances to practise this together to ensure their understanding, before providing fun games and activities in their independent learning to consolidate their learning.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Game board
Number cards

#Lesson4RoundingDecimals

This lesson teaches your class to round numbers with up to three decimal places to the nearest tenth or nearest whole number. The slides go through some examples of this before challenging children to have a go at rounding a variety of numbers independently. The alternative activity has a fun game to have a go at too!

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Game cards
Number cards

#Lesson5FindingAverages

The final lesson in this series puts rounding decimals into real-life contexts in this lesson as they apply a variety of maths skills to find averages, rounding the answer to the nearest tenth or whole number when needed. The slides go through simple examples of how to do this, using calculators to support their calculations, before challenging children to gather and interpret their own data in the same way during their independent learning. There are also sets of data ready to be analysed in the alternative activity.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Challenge cards
Data cards

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Curriculum Objectives covered

Year 6 - read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
Year 6 - identify the value of each digit in numbers given to three decimal places and multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 giving answers up to three decimal places
Year 6 - solve problems which require answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy
Year 6 - calculate and interpret the mean as an average