Word Problems

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<p>Practise all different types and contexts for multiplication word problems with your Year 6 pupils.</p>
<p>This worksheet contains 11 reasoning and problem solving questions to encourage your Year 6 pupils to develop their understanding of multiplication.</p>
<p>The questions progress in difficulty, culminating in a challenge question.</p>
<p>Word problems can be used as individual tasks or to develop mathematical conversations through partner, small group or whole class work.</p>
<p>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 multiplication knowledge and skills before moving on to more complex mixed topic problems.</p>
<h3>Year 6 multiplication word problems worksheet</h3>
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  <li>Multiplication in real-life scenarios</li>
  <li>Application in everyday contexts such as shopping and travel</li>
  <li>Working with prime numbers</li>
  <li>Multiplying 3-digit number by up to 2-digit numbers</li>
  <li>Scaling</li>
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Help your Year 6 pupils apply their understanding of multiplication to an unfamiliar context using these worded problems. 11 questions to develop reasoning and problem solving skills.

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Word Problems | Multiplication | Year 6