Rapid Reasoning | Weeks 7 to 12 | Year 6

Develop your pupils’ confidence in problem solving and reasoning with daily Rapid Reasoning questions for weeks 7 to 12 of Year 6. With 90 questions spread across the 6 weeks you have 3 questions a day to show in an editable PowerPoint presentation. They follow a clear progression in terms of both content domain and cognitive demand and will introduce pupils to a wide variety of reasoning and problem solving question types.

This daily practice resource is designed to help overcome pupils’ barriers to reasoning and problem solving in KS2 and to further develop their confidence in tackling the varied and complex questions that they may encounter in their KS2 SATs. Like all Third Space Learning resources, Rapid Reasoning follows a maths mastery approach. Pupils are encouraged to develop depth in a single topic over the course of a week to allow them to build up their knowledge gradually.

Rapid Reasoning was created as a partner resource to the very popular Fluent in Five. Regular daily practice of 10 to 20 minutes, when possible, will help you to achieve the best results. The resource also includes support in teaching problem solving and reasoning as well as worked examples to help scaffold and develop pupils’ skills. Suitable to use with mastery schemes such as White Rose.

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Topic breakdown per week

• Week 7: Focuses on solving multi-step problems using order of operations and mental strategies, and solving calculations based on known facts.

• Week 8: Concentrates on finding and simplifying equivalent fractions, using a number line for counting fractions, and comparing and ordering fractions with different denominators or common numerators.

• Week 9: Covers adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators, working with mixed numbers, and solving multi-step problems involving fractions.

• Week 10: Teaches multiplying fractions by integers and other fractions, dividing fractions by integers (including multiples and non-multiples of the integer), and mixed questions involving fractions.

• Week 11: Emphasises mixed questions with fractions, calculating fractions of amounts, and determining the whole amount from a fractional amount.

• Week 12: Focuses on identifying, reading, and writing metric measurements for length, mass, and capacity, converting metric units, calculating using metric units, and converting between miles and kilometres, as well as between imperial and metric units.