Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 7 – Long Division (2)

Year 6: Four Operations: Lesson 7 – Long Division (2) Advance your Year 6 pupils’ skills with this curriculum-aligned lesson centred on Long Division (2) —a follow-up session offering deeper practice and conceptual understanding of the long division algorithm. This resource includes detailed teacher planning, differentiated worksheets, and reasoning tasks to reinforce pupils' fluency, accuracy, and mathematical thinking. Students will: Apply the long division method confidently with larger or more complex numbers. Manage the full algorithmic cycle— divide, multiply, subtract, bring down —with independence. Interpret results with clarity, including handling remainders and verifying sense. Deepen their reasoning through tasks that prompt them to explain their strategic choices and solution steps. Ideal for guided lessons, independent consolidation, or mastery sessions, this lesson ensures pupils build resilience and precision in one of the Year 6 curriculum’s essential arithmetic methods.