Order of Operations Year 6 Maths Unit

Develop Year 6 students' fluency and reasoning with the order of operations. The teaching sequence makes the hierarchy clear: work inside brackets first, complete multiplication and division from left to right, then complete addition and subtraction from left to right.

Students solve expressions, investigate how brackets change values, identify first steps, insert missing operations and turn word problems into equations. An editable PowerPoint presentation and quiz support modelling and formative checking. The colour flow chart, Operation Trail game and Target Builder challenge add visual and hands-on practice, while five black-and-white worksheets, matching red-answer pages, an assessment and a rubric support independent work and assessment.

What's Included

• Editable 11-slide PowerPoint presentation
• Editable 22-slide PowerPoint quiz with 10 questions and answer slides
• 18-page A4 unit plan PDF with editable PPTX
• Order of Operations Flow Chart classroom display
• Operation Trail game board and cards
• Target Builder Challenge activity
• Five worksheets covering warm-up, brackets, left-to-right decisions, missing operations and word problems as equations
• Matching red-answer pages for all five worksheets
• Order of Operations Checkpoint assessment with red-answer page
• Order of Operations Rubric
• Watermarked 51-page preview PDF

Learning Focus

• Apply the correct order of operations to multi-step expressions.
• Calculate multiplication and division from left to right when they share priority.
• Calculate addition and subtraction from left to right when they share priority.
• Use brackets to group operations and change an expression's value.
• Insert missing operation signs to make equations true.
• Translate word problems into single number sentences.
• Show working and check whether answers are reasonable.

Classroom Use

Use the editable presentation to model the process and worked examples, then consolidate learning with the flow chart, Operation Trail game and Target Builder challenge. The five worksheets suit guided practice, independent work or maths rotations. Use the editable quiz for formative checking and the Order of Operations Checkpoint with its rubric for end-of-unit evidence.

Formats, Pages and Answers

Includes printable PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX files. The unit plan has 18 A4 pages, the presentation has 11 slides, the quiz has 22 slides and the preview has 51 pages. Matching red-answer pages are included for all five worksheets and the assessment.

Digital Product and Licence

This is a digital product; no physical item will be shipped. Purchase permits personal classroom use by the purchaser. Editable and printable files may not be shared, resold or redistributed.