Mass, Capacity, Temperature - Four operations with volume - Worksheet

The lesson titled "Four Operations with Volume" is aimed at Year 6 students, focusing on the National Curriculum objective of estimating and measuring mass, temperature, and capacity. Students are taught how to use standard units such as kilograms, grams, degrees Celsius, litres, and millilitres. They will learn to read scales, thermometers, and measuring vessels accurately. The lesson also covers comparing and ordering mass, volume, and capacity, recording the results with symbols for greater than, less than, and equal to. Teaching resources include a presentation, worksheets, and mini whiteboards, while key vocabulary terms include volume, capacity, full, empty, most, least, half, and litre.

During the lesson, children will apply the four operations—addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—to calculate the volume of water in various containers. They will use visual aids like part-whole models and bar models to assist in their calculations. The exercises are tiered for different levels of proficiency: starting with calculations involving simple multiples of 10 for those working towards fluency, moving to more complex scales and midpoints for those working within fluency, and finally multi-step problems for those achieving greater depth. Reasoning and problem-solving questions further challenge students to apply their knowledge in practical scenarios, such as determining the total volume a barrel can hold after pouring in a certain number of buckets of water.