Short division – Year 6 maths lesson

For parents: how to use this lesson

You don't need to know this topic yourself. The lesson explains each step on screen, the way Mr Euclid, our Head of Maths, likes it: one tidy step at a time. Every answer is marked straight away with a worked explanation, so you never have to mark anything.

1. Read what your child will learn together.
2. Press Start the lesson below and sit with your child for the teaching and the worked examples (about 19 minutes).
3. Let them do the practice on their own. They choose Getting started, On track or Challenge – start on On track and move up after a few right in a row.
4. Finish with the exit ticket and the talk question: “What does it mean when you write 0 above a digit?”
5. Later that day or the next day: the homework (20 minutes), then a practice test.

Watch out for

• Leaving out a zero in the answer (writing 64 for 604). Every digit inside the bus stop needs a digit above it, even if it is 0.
• A remainder bigger than the divisor. If what is left is as big as the divisor, another group fits.

Miss Hypatia's tip for home: Share sweets, money or minutes equally and talk about what is left over.