Year Four/Five Autumn Term

This resource has been created for primary children in mixed year group classes, from seven to nine years of age to support the learning of place value, addition, subtraction and decimals. The two detailed weekly plans 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 4

• Understand what each digit represents in a four-digit number
• Mental addition and subtraction using place values
• Place three and four numbers on a line, order and compare them

Year 5

• Understand place value in five-digit numbers
• Place 5-digit numbers on a line, order and compare them
• Use mental methods to add and subtract 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10,000
• Use written column addition to add pairs of 4-digit numbers and pairs of 5-digit numbers

Week Two

Year 4

• Mental addition of pairs of 2-digit numbers or 3-digit numbers and 2-digit numbers using place value or counting on
• Mental subtraction of 2-digit numbers from 2-digit numbers and from numbers greater than 100 by counting back or counting up

Year 5

• Written addition of money using column addition
• Use rounding to check answers
• Understand place value in numbers with two decimal places
• Mental division by 10 and 100 to give answers with two decimal places
• Mental multiplication of numbers with 2 decimals by 10 and by 100
• Place 2-place decimal numbers on a number line, compare and order them

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.