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Year Four: Spring Term. Old Curriculum

This resource from Hamilton Trust contains two weekly plans, teaching sequences and classroom resources. They cover tenths and hundredths, ordering and comparing numbers, multiplication and division facts, and 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 decimal notation for tenths and hundredths in context - for example, length, converting 125cm to metres
  • Locate four-digit nos on a 0-10,000 line (1000s labelled)
  • Compare four-digit numbers • Use < and > signs

Week 2

  • Revise multiplication facts for 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 times tables, and learn corresponding division facts
  • Begin to learn multiplication facts for 6 times table, look at patterns, investigate general statements
  • Use commutativity
  • Decide whether to round up or down after division
  • Use knowledge of multiplication and division to guess what a number has been multiplied by (guess the function machine)

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