Year 6Multiplication & Division

Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 4 – Short Division

Curriculum-aligned Year 6 lesson: practise short division with differentiated worksheets, reasoning tasks, and guided planning to strengthen fluency and understanding.

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Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 4 – Short Division Enable your Year 6 pupils to master short division confidently with this curriculum-aligned lesson. Designed to support the Year 6 requirement to divide numbers using efficient written methods, the resource includes detailed planning, differentiated worksheets, and reasoning tasks to reinforce understanding and fluency masterthecurriculum.co.uk. Students will: Practise short division (bus-stop method) for dividing multi-digit numbers by 2-digit divisors. Use and reinforce place-value concepts to manage remainders and quotient accuracy. Build reasoning skills through problems prompting pupils to interpret and justify their answers. Benefit from differentiated tasks that target varying abilities and consolidate learning. Ideal for guided teaching or independent practice, this lesson ensures structured support and progression—helping pupils develop procedural confidence and resilience in division.Read more

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Multiplication & Division, Year 611 numbered lessons

Lesson 3Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 3 – Multiply 4-digits by 2-digits
Lesson 4 · you are hereYear 6: Four Operations: Lesson 4 – Short Division
Lesson 5Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 5 – Division using Factors
Lesson 6Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 6 – Long Division
Lesson 7Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 7 – Long Division (2)

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Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 4 – Short Division

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