Diagnostic Assessment | Algebra | Year 6

Assess your Year 6 pupils’ understanding of algebra using this diagnostic assessment.

This diagnostic assessment can be used to diagnose specific misconceptions and learning gaps before starting a block of work or after completing a block.

Use this assessment before teaching the Year 6 algebra block of work to gain a baseline understanding of your pupils’ knowledge.

The assessment contains 25 multiple choice questions. Answers are designed by maths specialists to identify the correct answer for each question and explain the common error or misconception covered by the distractor answer.

Teachers tell us that they find it extremely valuable to assess prior knowledge before teaching a topic so they can better adapt their teaching to the needs of their class.

Year 6 algebra diagnostic assessments

• Interpreting simple formula

• Expressing missing number problems using symbols

• Solving simple formulae

• Finding any unknown in a simple formula

• Finding pairs of numbers to satisfy an equation with two unknowns