Statistics - Pie charts with percentages - Starter

The 'Fluent in Four' revision segment for Year 6 students, as part of their Summer Term Week 2 Day 1 activities, focuses on a range of mathematical challenges. The exercises include basic arithmetic operations, such as adding multi-digit numbers, where students are expected to combine figures like four hundreds, nine tens, and five ones with eight thousands, seventy-three tens, and six ones to find the sum. Additionally, the session tests their understanding of negative numbers through questions that require finding values that are more or less than given negative or positive integers. For instance, students are asked to determine what is ten less than three, one more than negative five, and so on, leading to answers like negative seven, negative four, and positive eighteen.

Another practical aspect of the lesson involves applying mathematical skills to everyday situations, such as scaling a recipe to suit different numbers of people. The original recipe provided is for six people and includes ingredients like onions, butter, lentils, stock, and tomato juice. Students are tasked with calculating the adjusted quantities needed to make the same soup for two or three people. The scaled-down versions of the recipe are given, with the quantities for two people being one onion, 20 grams of butter, 130 grams of lentils, 0.6 litre of stock, and 160 millilitres of tomato juice, and for three people, 1.5 onions, 30 grams of butter, 195 grams of lentils, 0.9 litre of stock, and 240 millilitres of tomato juice. Additionally, the lesson includes a component where students must work out the number of pupils travelling to school by various means, such as car, bus, walk, scooter, and bike, at Copingham Primary School, which has a total of 500 pupils.