A fill-in-the-gaps story about a baking contest, practising unit conversion for Year 6 maths. Pupils follow Chef Marcel's recipe, converting kilograms to grams and millilitres to litres with decimal notation, choosing words and numbers like 3,500 and 1.25 from a word bank with two distractors. Numbered answers included. Matched to two England National Curriculum measurement objectives.
Measurement
“Use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to three decimal places”
Every blank in the story converts between metric units with decimals.
Eleven words and numbers to place, including 3,500, litres, 1.25 and two distractors.
A narrative cloze where each blank needs a metric conversion or the right operation.
Answers 1 to 10, with the unused distractors identified.
Lesson starter
The story format warms up conversion skills without feeling like a drill.
Cover lesson
The word bank makes it self-supporting for a non-specialist.
Vocabulary focus
Pupils must choose multiply or divide, naming the operation behind each conversion.
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