1. S.O.D.A. Start Of Day Activity
Morning registration mathematics activity
Aligned to the Renewed Framework for Mathematics
Stoke-on-Trent Primary Maths Team

2. S.O.D.A. Start Of Day Activity
WHAT IS IT?
10 mathematics questions per day based on the Renewed Framework for Mathematics.
Questions 1-5 consolidate maths from the previous unit.
Questions 6-10 are based on the previous year’s coverage of the next unit (following Block sequence A B C D E).
This will support you in pitching the learning appropriately for the next unit and gathering evidence for APP.
WHAT IS IT NOT?
SODA is NOT intended to be used during any part of the daily mathematics lesson.
It is an ADDITIONAL resource to support the CONSOLIDATION of learning which has taken place previously.

3. S.O.D.A. Start Of Day Activity
WHEN?
During the registration period at the start of the day.
Pupils could record their answers in a ‘SODA’ book.
Go through the questions and discuss strategies the children used with the pupils during registration.
Ensure that you model the correct mathematical vocabulary and always encourage the children to use it correctly.
HOW?
Use SODA as it stands or personalise the questions for your pupils by adapting / replacing them.

4. Councillors on Line
Year 6, Block C, Unit 2
Questions based on Year 6, Block B, Unit 2
Questions based on Year 5, Block D Unit 2

5. Monday 9th February 2009 1. Find the value of a 2. Find the value of c
Copy the diagram. a, b, c, d stand for different numbers. The totals are shown at the end of each row and column.
1. Find the value of a
2. Find the value of c
3. find the value of d
4. find the value of b
5. find the value of each ?
How many grams are there in … kg kg kg kg kg
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

6. Tuesday 10th February 2009
I have an abacus and 3 yellow beads (hundreds), 3 red beads (tens) & 3 green beads (ones). The largest number I can make is 333 (as shown) the smallest number is 1 (1 green bead). (You can’t have different coloured beads together on any H or T or U stick) Be systematic …
1. How many 1-digit numbers can be made?
2. How many 2-digit numbers can be made?
3. How many 3-digit numbers can be made?
4. How many 400g cans of beans do I need to
buy, if I need six 125g portions of beans?
5. Do I have any beans left over?
6. How many g?
7. What fraction of one whole can is left over?
8. Is this fraction equivalent to 1/5, 1/6, 1/7 or
1/8?
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

7. Councillors on Line
Wednesday 11th February 2009
1. How many triangles can you see in the diagram?
2. Name a 3D shape with faces of only
one type of 2D shape. (see notes page)
3. name another
4. name another
5. Which of these are multiples of 3?
312, 123, 413, 663, 652, 912, 703 (see notes)
– 3.849
8. 67 x 8
x 8
x 6
Q2-4. A cube is solely made from square faces.
Tetrahedron is solely made from equilateral triangle faces (4 faces, imagine equilateral triangle based pyramid).
The octahedron can be solely made from equilateral triangle faces. (8 faces, imagine 2 square based pyramids stuck together by the square bases).
Q5. test of divisibility for 3 – add the digits, if the digits sum to 3,6 or 9 it is divisible by 3 with no remainder e.g. for 312, = 6 so is divisible by 3. For 703, 7+0+3= 10 so keep adding until you reach a single digit… 1+0=1 so not divisible by 3.
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

8. Thursday 12th February 2009 How many kg is… 6. 4000 g 7. 2500 g
1. Calculate the floor area of the green house.
2. What are the correct units?
3. Calculate the floor area of 2 houses.
4. Calculate the floor area of all 4 houses
5. think of a shape with 1 pair of parallel sides, but no pairs of perpendicular sides.
How many kg is… g g g g
10. 15g
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

9. Friday 13th February 2009 1. If is 20 what is ? 2. If is 34 what is ?
4. What other numbers could be represented by these
shapes?
5. Which quadrilaterals have diagonals that intersect at
right angles?
6. 23,
7. 86,402 – 12,895
8. 39 x 8
x 8
x 4
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

10. Monday 23rd February 2009 1. Estimate the area of the field
2. How would you use 12 x 12 = 144
to work out 14 x 12?
3. List the square numbers to 100
4. a2 = 2500 what is a?
5. b2 = 6400 what is b?
6. What is the perimeter of the field?
7. Draw a horizontal line measuring 115 mm
8. Draw another line measuring 17.3 cm
9. What is the difference in length between the two lines?
÷ 5
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

11. Tuesday 24th February 2009
x 4
÷ 9
3. 56 ÷ 7 = 8 list 4 associated facts involving decimals
4. If a jug (j) holds 4 glasses of wine (g)
j = 4g, how many glasses of wine in 2 jugs?
Complete the equation 2j = ?
5. If one glass is 0.2 litres, how many litres will 8 glasses
be?
÷ 7
7. Two parcels together weigh 5.5 kg. Parcel one weighs
1.6 kg. What does parcel two weigh?
8. A third parcel weighs double parcel one. What do the
three parcels weigh altogether?
Thinking about the weight of the parcels, realistically …
9. What could be in parcel one?
10. What could be in parcel two?
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

12. Wednesday 25th February 2009
18 has these 6 factors 1, 18, 2, 9, 3 and 6.
1. List the factors of 21, of 22, of 23, of 24 and of 25.
2. Which number has the greatest number of factors?
3. Which has the least? What is this type of number called?
4. Which number has 3 factors?
5. What is a special property of this number?
Estimate the angles a,b,c,d,e. Now order them, smallest first. Which angles are acute? Obtuse? Reflex?
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

13. Councillors on Line
Thursday 26th February 2009
Look at the ‘factor tree’ for 12, it has the prime factors 2 x 2 x 3.
1. What are the prime factors of 16?
2. What are the prime factors of 28?
3. List the prime numbers up to 20 (see notes)
4. Find 2 prime numbers with a total of 24
5. 87 is not a prime number because it is a multiple of __
6. What does ‘area’ mean?
7. Which are not measures of area? cm, cm2, mm2, m2, km
8. What does ‘perimeter’ mean?
9. What is the formula for the area of a rectangle?
10. What is the formula for the perimeter of a square?
1 is not a prime number. Prime numbers need 2 factors.
Year 6 Block C Unit 2

14. Friday 27th February 2009
1. Will the 45th bead in the pattern be red or blue?
2. How can you explain it? (clue: list which beads are red
/ blue till you see a pattern, e.g. blue 1,2 red, 3,4,5)
3. beads with numbers ending in ……….. are blue
4. beads with numbers ending in ……….. are red
5. Will the 2347th bead be red or blue?
(on cm2 paper) What is the area and the perimeter of the…
6. red shape?
7. blue shape?
8. green shape?
Write calculations to show how
you worked out each of the answers.
Year 6 Block C Unit 2