Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 12 – Common Factors

Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 12 – Common Factors Support your Year 6 pupils in building strong number sense through this curriculum-aligned lesson focused on identifying common factors. This resource includes comprehensive planning, differentiated worksheets, and reasoning tasks, allowing learners to develop both procedural fluency and conceptual understanding. Pupils will: Identify common factors between pairs of numbers using times tables knowledge. Apply efficient strategies such as factor pairs, factor trees, or listing methods. Engage in reasoning tasks that deepen mathematical thinking and justification of their answers. Access differentiated activities to support understanding and stretch confident learners. Perfect for structured guided teaching, independent tasks, or mastery consolidation, this lesson reinforces essential arithmetic skills in a meaningful, real-world context.