Year Four: Autumn Term. Old Curriculum

This resource from Hamilton Trust contains two weekly plans, teaching sequences and classroom resources. They cover place value, ordering numbers, times tables and mental multiplication and division. The detailed teaching sequences include differentiated activity ideas, suggested resources and notes on progression and misconceptions in the specific areas. Objectives are:

Week 1

• Understand what each digit represents in a 3- or 4-digit number
• Write place-value related additions and subtractions
• Locate 3- and 4-digit numbers on landmarked lines, 100s or 1000s labelled
• Round 3-digit numbers to the nearest 100

Week 2

• Recognise multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10, up to the tenth multiple
• Revise multiplication facts for 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables, and learn corresponding division facts
• Learn multiplication facts for the 9 times table
• Look at patterns, investigate general statements
• Multiply single digits by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 10, and divide by the same including remainders
• Use commutativity to find the easier way to multiply
• Begin to decide whether to round up or down after division
• Use the relationship between multiplication and division

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