KS2 Maths textbook

Year 6 SATs Maths Revision: lesson and practice

  • Strand Revision
  • Level Year 6
  • Practice 115 questions with step-by-step solutions

National Curriculum for England, Key Stage 2 mathematics, Year 6. Content: Revise the Year 6 number topics: place value, the four operations, factors and primes, fractions, decimals and percentages, Revise ratio, proportion and algebra, measures, area and volume, shapes, angles and coordinates, Revise statistics: pie charts, line graphs and the mean, Use written methods, check answers, and show working clearly in SATs-style questions.

Open Year 6 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

  • Work accurately through a fluency set of the four operations, and check answers with an estimate
  • Choose the right method for a question, including long multiplication, long division and the order of operations
  • Answer place value, rounding and negative number questions, and find factors and primes
  • Work with fractions, decimals and percentages, and convert between them
  • Solve ratio, formula and sequence problems, and solve simple equations
  • Convert units and find the area, perimeter and volume of shapes
  • Find missing angles and reflect or translate points on a coordinate grid
  • Read pie charts and line graphs, and find the mean and a missing value
  • Show working clearly and use the marks to decide how much to write

You should already know

  • Every Year 6 chapter from Place value (Chapter 1) to Statistics (Chapter 12)
  • Year 5 methods for the four operations, fractions, decimals and percentages, and shapes

Where this leads

  • Secondary maths, such as Year 7 number, algebra and geometry
  • Practice papers in the SATs practice books (Year 6 reasoning and arithmetic)

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 13.1 The four operations and the order of operations
  2. 13.2 Place value, negative numbers, rounding, factors and primes
  3. 13.3 Fractions, decimals and percentages
  4. 13.4 Ratio, proportion and algebra
  5. 13.5 Measures, area, volume and time
  6. 13.6 Shapes, angles, circles and coordinates
  7. 13.7 Statistics: pie charts, line graphs and the mean
  8. Summary and key words
  9. Check-up and SATs-style questions

Read the whole chapter on one page (good for printing).

Practise with real exam questions

The DfE publishes every past KS2 test, with mark schemes, for free.

KS2 Maths past papers