Word Problems | Four Operations | Year 6

Practise all different types and contexts for the four operations word problems with your Year 6 pupils.

This worksheet contains 11 reasoning and problem solving questions to encourage your Year 6 pupils to develop their understanding of the four operations.

The questions progress in difficulty, culminating in a challenge question.

Word problems can be used as individual tasks or to develop mathematical conversations through partner, small group or whole class work.

Teachers regularly request word problems that expose pupils to a wide variety of contexts and problem solving techniques on a single topic. With this resource pupils can develop confidence in reasoning and problem solving using their four operations knowledge and skills.

Year 6 four operations word problems worksheet

• Four operations in real-life scenarios
• Application in everyday contexts such as money
• Multi-step problems
• Calculating with fractions, decimals and percentages