Year 6 · Summer term · Position and direction · Step 4
Year 6 Translations worksheets
Translate points and shapes and describe translations. A free editable Word sheet with eight fluency and six reasoning questions. The answers follow the questions: the same sheet again with every answer in red.
Download the worksheets
Print on A4 portrait: every page carries the sheet twice, side by side, so you can cut down the middle and two pupils each get a half to stick in their books. Every question sits in its own box and pupils write their answers in their book. The answers follow the questions in the file: the same sheet again with every answer in red. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, so you can change numbers, delete questions or add your own. There is no scaffolded version of this step yet.
Not scaffolded sheet
The same questions without the extra support. For pupils working at the expected standard: eight fluency questions first, then the reasoning questions.
Sample questions from this step
These are real questions from the first set of the sheet (two from the fluency page, two from the reasoning page). Open each one to see the answer.
- Four points are plotted on the coordinate grid. Count the squares to describe the translation from P to Q.a) How many squares left is it from P to Q? ____b) How many squares up is it from P to Q? ____
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9; 5
- The coordinate grid shows shape A and four other shapes. Some of the shapes are translations of shape A: they have been slid, but not turned or flipped.Which shapes are translations of A? Write the letters. ____
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B, E
- Square A is translated to square B.The translation from A to B is 3 squares right and 3 squares up.Is Boba correct? Circle yes or no.Circle yes or no.Explain how you know.
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No; Boba counted from the corner of A that is closest to B to the closest corner of B. You must count from a corner of A to the same corner of B. The bottom left corners are at (0, 1) and (5, 6), so the translation is 5 squares right and 5 squares up.
- A point starts at (−2, −3). It is translated 2 squares right and 4 squares down. Then it is translated 5 squares right and 4 squares down.a) Where does the point end up? Write the coordinates. ____b) What single translation would take the point from the start to the end? Write it like this: 3 left and 4 up. ____
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(5, −11); 7 right and 8 down
What is on each sheet
- Fluency: eight questions that start easy and get harder, with the key skill of the step practised in different ways.
- Reasoning: questions with pictures, tables and number lines (spot the mistake, true or false and explain, puzzles with one answer, an open-ended task).
- Answers in the same file: the sheet again with every answer in red, so there is only one file to download.
- Boba characters give the instructions in speech bubbles. They are decoration only.
Why one set of questions?
- Everyone works on the same content, and support comes from scaffolds instead of different, easier tasks. This follows the mastery approach described by the NCETM and the thinking in Ofsted's 2021 mathematics research review.
- Worked examples and visual representations lighten the load for pupils who need it, as the Education Endowment Foundation describes.