Properties of Shape - Draw Shapes Accurately - Starter

The lesson plan for Year 6 students in their summer term focuses on accurately drawing shapes and understanding their properties. The activity begins with a 'Fluent in Four' revision session, where students are challenged with multiplication and division problems to warm up their mathematical thinking. Following this, the main task is to draw any quadrilateral and partition it into two triangles. Students are tasked with exploring the properties of these shapes by calculating the sum of the interior angles for each triangle, which should each total 180 degrees. They are then asked to determine the sum of angles in a quadrilateral, which is 360 degrees. This exercise helps students to understand the relationship between the angles within triangles and quadrilaterals.

Further activities include adding whole numbers and then fractions to calculate sums, which reinforces their arithmetic skills involving mixed numbers. Students are also asked to complete a table by dividing given numbers by 10, 100, and 1000, which aids in their understanding of place value and the effects of division on numbers. This activity is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of shape properties and arithmetic operations, ensuring that students can accurately work with shapes and perform calculations with both whole numbers and fractions.