Year 6 Powers of Ten Unit

Help Year 6 students understand why multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 changes the value of each digit. This complete mathematics unit uses fixed place-value charts, explicit teaching, guided examples, practice tasks, games and assessment to develop accurate calculation and clear mathematical explanation.

Students work with whole numbers and decimals, choose appropriate operations in context, challenge misconceptions, analyse errors and check solutions using inverse operations. The teaching presentation and quiz remain editable in PowerPoint, while the unit plan provides print-ready colour displays, low-ink practice pages, matching answer pages, hands-on resources, an assessment and a five-level rubric.

What's included

• 24-slide editable PowerPoint teaching presentation
• 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz with 10 question/answer pairs
• 38-page A4 unit plan PDF containing the Table of Contents and 37 resource pages
• Six colour classroom displays: Multiply by 10, Multiply by 100, Multiply by 1000, Divide by 10, Divide by 100 and Divide by 1000
• Power Shift Race game with instructions, board, multiplication cards and division cards
• Power of Ten Sort and Explain activity with sorting mat and transformation cards
• Worksheet 1: Place Value Shift Foundations — two student pages plus answers
• Worksheet 2: Multiplying by Powers of Ten — two student pages plus answers
• Worksheet 3: Dividing by Powers of Ten — two student pages plus answers
• Worksheet 4: Mixed Powers of Ten Practice — two student pages plus answers
• Worksheet 5: Reasoning in Context — student page plus answers
• Worksheet 6: Error Analysis and Problem Creation — student page plus answers
• Powers of Ten Performance Check — two student pages plus two answer pages
• Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of Ten Rubric with five performance levels
• Protected 84-page combined Preview PDF

Learning focus

• Connect digit position with place value
• Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
• Explain that digits shift columns while the decimal point remains fixed
• Select operations and solve contextual problems
• Analyse errors, justify strategies and check with inverse operations

Classroom use

Use the presentation for explicit instruction and worked examples, the displays for classroom reference, the worksheets for guided or independent practice, the games for collaborative consolidation, the quiz for formative checking, and the assessment and rubric for end-of-unit evidence. The sequence is suitable for approximately 1–2 weeks and can be adapted for small-group intervention, revision or extension.

Product details

Year level: Year 6 / Grade 6

Subject: Mathematics

Topic: Multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000

File formats: PDF and editable PPTX

Unit plan page count: 38 pages

Presentation: 24 slides

Quiz: 22 slides

Answer key: Included

Teacher benefits

• One coherent teaching, practice and assessment sequence
• Editable PowerPoint files for classroom adaptation
• Matching student and answer pages for efficient marking and feedback
• A balance of explicit instruction, reasoning, collaboration and independent practice
• Clear Australian English wording and curriculum-aware skill progression

Digital product and licence

This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase provides a single-teacher classroom licence. Files may not be redistributed, resold, shared publicly or uploaded to a shared resource bank.