Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 6 – Long Division

Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 6 – Long Division Equip your Year 6 pupils with a powerful and curriculum-aligned lesson focused on long division. This resource includes detailed planning, differentiated worksheets, and reasoning tasks designed to reinforce pupils’ understanding and fluency with the formal long division method—including multi-digit dividends and divisors. Pupils will: Learn to use the long division algorithm step by step, including divide, multiply, subtract, bring down processes. Apply their corrections and reasoning to problems involving larger numbers—increasing fluency and accuracy. Deepen their understanding of place-value through structured division practice. Extend their problem-solving capacity with reasoning tasks and differentiation to cater to varied abilities. Perfect for guided instruction, independent practice, or mastery consolidation, this lesson helps pupils build confidence and precision with long division—an essential Year 6 calculation skill.