Time and Money

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

This sequence of lessons starts by recapping telling the time on analogue and digital clocks, and swiftly moves on to converting between units of time, solving real-life time-zone problems and exploring the relationship between time and money for workers around the world.

These Year 6 Time and Money lessons contain everything you need to deliver these challenging lessons, including lesson plans with differentiated activities, slideshows for each of the whole-school teaching inputs, and a range of engaging printable resources, including worksheets, question cards, challenges and much more!

#Lesson1TimeWordProblems

This Time Word Problems Year 6 Maths lesson will challenge your KS2 mathematicians to solve a variety of time problems that involve converting between units of measure (time) using all four operations.

The included slideshow presentation starts by refreshing their memories on converting between analogue and digital times, before going through a variety of tricky Year 6 time word problems for your class to have a go at. Each problem has the answer modelled (once your children have attempted an answer for themselves) to check and consolidate their reasoning.

This Year 6 Time Word Problems lesson also comes with a set of differentiated printable resources to challenge every learner in your class as they continue to solve a variety of real-life time problems independently.

#Lesson2TimeZones

This Time Zones KS2 Maths lesson gives your Year 6 class the chance to find out what 'GMT' is and identify the time zones of major cities around the world. Starting off simply and progressing to more challenging problems, your class will then work out what the local times around the world are in comparison to each other, such as working out what the time in New York is if it is 14:30 in London.

Downloading this Time Zones KS2 lesson pack provides you with instant access to an engaging and challenging lesson that's completely ready to teach. There's a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input that guides your class through the teaching points and poses questions to test their understanding, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your class as they continue to work out how time zones work!

#Lesson3TimeZoneWordProblems

In this Time Zone Word Problems lesson, your Year 6 class will build on their understanding of how time zones work to solve a variety of word problems relating to time zones. Children will be challenged to work out what the local time at a flight destination would be, taking into account both the flight time and the time difference. There is also the opportunity of finding car journeys across Europe that take a particular length of time using online maps.

This Year 6 Time Zones Word Problems lesson comes with everything you need to deliver this fun lesson. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow that goes through some example questions and models how to solve these time zone word problems, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your Year 6 class as they solve time zone problems independently.

#Lesson4MultiplyingDecimalsbyWholeNumbers

This Multiplying Decimals by Whole Numbers KS2 Maths lesson for Year 6 uses the context of money and wages to challenge your children to multiply one-digit numbers with up to two decimal places by whole numbers. Solving a variety of real-life problems, your class will start by going through some example questions as a class, exploring effective methods to solve these problems.

During their independent learning activities, your class can then use what they have learnt and practised to work out how much people get paid for a variety of odd jobs. An added challenge is working out how much different workers across a variety of sectors get paid per day, week and year.

This lesson comes completely planned and ready to teach with a lesson plan, slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources that will have your KS2 children multiplying decimals by whole numbers in no time!

#Lesson5MinimumWages

Your Year 6 class will find out what the term 'minimum wage' actually means in this lesson as they explore minimum wage hourly rates in a variety of countries across the world. They will use this information to solve a variety of problems, including how many hours different minimum-wage workers around the world would have to work in order to pay for a Big Mac!

These real-life problems will give an engaging context for your KS2 class to continue to become confident in multiplying one-digit numbers with up to two decimal places by whole numbers as they work with amounts of money. And the best part is that is it fully planned for you already and comes with all the resources you need to teach this lesson.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• Year 6 - multiply one-digit numbers with up to two decimal places by whole numbers
• Year 6 - solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to three decimal places where appropriate
• Year 6 - use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to three decimal places