Year 6 Maths homework - I must be thick!

isitenough

Easiest way to learn what age they are in each year is just to add 4/5 (age they start school these days!) so Yr 6 is ages 10/11.
As for Maths I don't even try, OH is way better than me at helping the kids with their homework in that subject! I'm more the English and History type!

ailuro2

My DD is in primary 6, I tell her to make the sum smaller by dividing both sides by the same number when the numbers are too big for her to deal with(they don't seem to get much long division yet!).

So for 50 and 32 I would divide them by 2, so I would then have 25 and 16 to work with, which sometimes seems more manageable than the bigger numbers.

so 16/25.0

then she'd probably make it into 8/12.50

so when the 12 is divided by 8 it is 1,r4, then 8 into 45 etc, it makes it simpler...

Then I remind her to always do a rough guesstimate of what the answer should be to make sure the decimal point is in the right place.

mintymoneysaver

74jax wrote: »

The problem with my daughter is she learns 'chunking' the most ridiculous method in maths where as I used long division.

Do you know the method your child is using? I'm guessing you have the question, you have the answer, you don't know how to show the workings out?

I hate chunking, and I'm a primary schoolteacher!!

melb

year 6 is aged 10 or 11. I always find "problem solving" the most difficult part of my children's homework to help with and seem to remember i was the same at school. I think there is a really good website which is called mr Barton's maths or something like that. It was recommended on one of the websites on here and when I had to use if - i think if was for fractions. i found it really helpful to explain things to me so i could then explain it to them. I agree with the poster above who said to put a note on to the teacher so they know they're struggling with this aspect.

kai666

daska wrote: »

Divide the number of grams by the number of pennies.

I think you mean divide the number of pennies by the number of grams;)

xxvickixx

I would recommend again looking at his text book. That is going to be the way that his school teaches. It is important to know the proper way of doing long multipliation as per the Maths is Fun link because it is the only way he's going to be able to do more advanced maths and the other methods don't work when you're doing polynomial long division. I would have thought it best to start as you mean to go on, but then I'm not a maths teacher lol!

Oldernotwiser

bylromarha wrote: »

And he must be predicted a level 5? Just checked on the DFeS website and long division with 2 digits is a learning objective for extending yr6s (ie yr 7 work)

And they say that educational standards haven't fallen!

mintymoneysaver

xxvickixx wrote: »

I would recommend again looking at his text book. That is going to be the way that his school teaches. It is important to know the proper way of doing long multipliation as per the Maths is Fun link because it is the only way he's going to be able to do more advanced maths and the other methods don't work when you're doing polynomial long division. I would have thought it best to start as you mean to go on, but then I'm not a maths teacher lol!

You will probably find he doesn't have a text book. In my school they're pretty much frowned upon!

74jax

kai666 wrote: »

I think you mean divide the number of pennies by the number of grams;)

i'm confused now.

Surely it's grams divided by pennies?

50 divided by 32?

daska

staceysteve wrote: »

How many grams do you get for 1p from the small bar?

daska wrote: »

Divide the number of grams by the number of pennies.

kai666 wrote: »

I think you mean divide the number of pennies by the number of grams;)

And I think you'd get nil points if you did it your way because your answer would be the price per gram.