Year Three/Four Autumn Term

This resource has been created for primary children in mixed year group classes, from seven to nine years of age. The two weekly plans support learning about number, place value, addition and subtraction and contain differentiated activities for the different year groups, guided tasks and details of resources required for each lesson. Objectives covered in the lessons include:

Week One

Year Three

• Place two and three-digit numbers on a line
• Order and compare
• Understand place value in three-digit numbers
• Understand and use place value with money

Year Four

• Understand what each digit represents in a four-digit number
• Write place value additions and subtractions
• Place three-digit numbers on a line
• Order and place three-digit and four-digit numbers on a line
• Compare four-digit numbers
• Methods use bead bars and landmarked lines
• Begin to use written column addition

Week Two

Year Three

• Know number bonds to 20 and use for mental addition and subtraction
• Use = to represent equality
• Add and subtract one-digit to two-digit numbers

Year Four

• Add pairs of two-digit numbers and three-digit numbers using place value or counting on
• Subtract two-digit numbers from two-digit numbers by counting back or counting up
• Methods used include adding near multiples, partitioning
• Frog counting up subtraction and counting back subtraction

Provided by Hamilton Trust, this resource has been developed to support the 2014 National Curriculum.

The Hamilton website also hosts a wealth of other free resources.