Festivals and celebrations maths challenges teaching pack
Our Festivals and celebrations maths challenges year 6 teaching pack is designed to help children recap, practise and consolidate problem solving skills in preparation for KS2 SATs.
The pack is divided into nine lessons. Each lesson targets a specific strand of the Y6 maths Programme of Study and relates to a particular festival or celebration to give maths a real-life context.
Lessons feature a starter activity, a whole class teaching activity with PowerPoint slides, a worksheet for independent work and a plenary.
Questions are KS2 maths SATs-style. Answers are
included.
Lessons included in the pack:
Lesson 1: Halloween – add, subtract, multiply, divide
Lesson 2: Bonfire Night – fractions
Lesson 3: Diwali – shape
Lesson 4: Hanukkah – statistics
Lesson 5: Christmas – position and direction
Lesson 6: Chinese New Year – percentages
Lesson 7: Easter – ratio
Lesson 8: Earth Day – area, perimeter and volume
Lesson 9: Eid al-Fitr – algebra
You may also like our Festivals and celebrations comprehension practice teaching pack.
A sample word problem:
Auntie Zainab sells silver bracelets as Eid gifts in her shop. She uses a formula to work out how much each customer pays according to the number of links of silver in the bracelet (which she calls s). She charges 50p for each silver link and then £1.50 for the presentation box. What is the formula she uses to work out the cost for a customer?
