Year 6 · Mathematics and statistics · Number
Whole numbers, rounding, squares and cubes
Place value of large whole numbers, rounding (including decimals), factor pairs, square and cube numbers, and counting back past zero.
Everything for this topic in one place
- 3D lesson: Whole numbers, rounding, squares and cubes — Read millions on a 3D place-value chart, slide a marker to round, build square and cube numbers from blocks, find factor pairs and count back past zero.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 2 (Years 4–6), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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More Year 6 maths topics
Order of operations · Multiplication and division · Fractions, decimals and percentages · Percentages, proportion and money · Inequalities, patterns and coordinates · Area, volume and unit conversions · Angles · Time and timetables · Triangles, quadrilaterals, symmetry and tessellation · Mean, range and time-series graphs · Probability