Year 6 Teachers advice needed

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My daughter is in year 6, always been a strong expected in maths. Sometimes able to deepen learning with greater depth problem solving questions.
She’s started Year 6 and having done a few tests is getting 10-15 marks on average out of 40.
Ive got the LCP books I’m working on at the weekend and in short bursts in the week, her times table knowledge is strong but how can I help her?

Ive identified areas of weakness but just after any tips you have.

She's only been back a week, how many tests could she possibly have had???

Maybe give her chance to settle back into school and wait for the teacher to flag it as an actual issue??

At year 6 timetables
Knowledge is mostly taken for granted.

Basics:

She should be able to add and subtract into decimals with two or three decimal places

She should be able to multiply up to HTU x TU for example 356 x 42

She should be able to divide using either long or short division up to ThHTU div U

Eg 1865 divided by 3

Mid point knowledge:

Comparing decimals (eg knowing that 9.9 is bigger than 9.11)
Working with Money - eg buying three of something and working out the change from a ten pound note
Solving missing box problems eg 4.5 + something is ten, what is the missing number
Knowing names of 2d and 3D shapes
Knowing and identifying acute obtuse and reflex angles, measuring angles with a protraxtor
Knowing Isoceles, scalene and equilateral triangles and being able to name them

Obviously there is a lot more, but can she do all of that? If not work on that, if yes then start enxtebding.

We found a really good local maths tutor for ours in year 6. They very strong at anything word based but like me with numbers needed it explained again. It really helped and they liked the tutor went uncomplainingly.

Year 6 teacher here. Any test sat so far in school this academic year should be taken with a large pinch of salt and actually aren't that useful in showing what someone can and can't do. I'm assuming since the score is out of 40 these were arithmetic tests. A lot of content in those test won't have been covered, such as long division, order of operations and fraction work as they are Y6 objectives.

Is she is secure in her multiplication facts, does she know the associated division facts e.g. 6 x. 7 =42, so 42 / 7 = 6 and 45 divided by 6= 7 remainder 3.

Can she confidently and quickly divide by 10, 100 and 1000?

Does she set out calculations correctly e.g. lining up decimal points?

Ensuring these are secure will gain her a lot of marks pretty quickly.

Thank you all that’s great and lots to work on. She can divide well but as school have always carried out regular tests with both times and divide.
We have considered a tutor but will see how she gets on.
@ShoopShoopShoopShoop she’s been back two weeks so had two tests plus lots of class work. I’m not waiting until parents evening in late October when we could be doing something now. I don’t want to be in bothering her teacher this early on, which is why I wanted opinions from year 6 teachers.

As a year 6 teacher I agree it’s very early to be worrying. As a previous poster said if they’re doing practice SATs (or SATs like) papers they won’t have covered a lot of the content yet. I would say as well as Yellowted’s great suggestions, is she secure in the fractions she has covered so far? There is a lot of fractions in year 6.

I will say though if she’s generally confident it can also just be the time pressure that trips a lot of them up at first. Not reading questions properly (adding instead of taking away), running out of time and not finishing or skipping questions they could have done. Working on working efficiently is always helpful (for example lots of kids default to doing every sum as a column method when it could have been done mentally) and just getting used to doing things in a time. You could do some short bursts of arithmetic/times tables and see if she can get quicker at doing it.

That’s also really helpful thank you. Adding and subtracting fractions was what came up she struggled with so good to know fractions come up a lot in Year 6.

As for worrying, I just want to address areas of weakness. I (like I’m dupe everyone) with both of us working full time, extracurricular clubs etc so I’m trying to make a plan.