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Year 6 · Maths · SATs revision · Lesson 1

Arithmetic practice: whole numbers

SATs arithmetic practice with whole numbers: column addition and subtraction, long multiplication, short and long division, and order of operations.

Whiteboard video lesson: Arithmetic practice: whole numbers

26-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Choose efficient written methods
  • Add and subtract large numbers
  • Multiply and divide accurately
  • Use BIDMAS
  • Check answers

The method

  1. Read the sign.
  2. Choose a written method.
  3. Work neatly in columns.
  4. Check with the inverse.

Key words: arithmetic, column method, long multiplication, long division, BIDMAS.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Work out 5,678 + 2,345.

  1. Step 1: Line up the digits in columns.
  2. Step 2: Column method

Answer: 8,023

Question 2

Work out 36,472 + 18,659.

  1. Step 1: Line up the digits in columns.
  2. Step 2: Column method

Answer: 55,131

Question 3

Work out 9,000 − 3,648.

  1. Step 1: Line up the digits in columns.
  2. Step 2: Column method

Answer: 5,352