Perimeter, Area and Volume - What is volume? - Starter

The 'Fluent in Four' revision exercise for Year 6 students during the Spring Term on Week 9, Day 2, presents a series of mathematical challenges. The first task requires students to combine the attendance figures from two rugby matches, one on Saturday with 6,722 attendees and another on Sunday with 14,566 attendees. The students are tasked with calculating the total number of people who attended both matches. Another problem asks students to calculate a missing angle in a geometric figure, given two angles that sum up to 85 degrees, and find the value of the third angle to complete the triangle. Additionally, students must perform subtraction operations, one involving the numbers 6,748 and 657, and another with a more complex set of hundreds, tens, and ones.

The worksheet also encourages students to engage with geometry by asking them to approximate the area of a parallelogram by counting squares on a grid. This hands-on approach is further explored with an activity where students are asked to imagine cutting a parallelogram along a dotted line and rearranging it into a rectangle, thereby facilitating the understanding of how the area of a parallelogram relates to the area of a rectangle. To solidify their understanding, students are then prompted to calculate the area of the resulting rectangle, using the dimensions provided. This variety of tasks is designed to strengthen the students' arithmetic and geometric skills in a practical and interactive manner.