Multiplication and division - Divide by 10 - Starter

In a mathematics exercise designed for Year 3 pupils during the Autumn Term's tenth week, students are tasked with a variety of problems to enhance their understanding of division and numerical relationships. One of the problems presents the number eighty-four and asks pupils to express it as a combination of ones and tens, specifically 8 ones and 4 tens, leading them to perform the calculation and discover the answer. Another problem prompts students to find a number that, when added to 17, equals 85, thereby practising their addition skills to fill in the missing value.

The exercise also includes a practical application of division, where pupils are given a scenario involving fifteen bananas to be shared equally among some monkeys. They must write out the calculation they used to determine how many bananas each monkey receives. Additionally, a block diagram is provided, illustrating the house points collected by five different classes, from which students are asked to identify the class that collected the fewest points. This task not only incorporates data interpretation skills but also encourages comparative analysis. The varied nature of the questions within this exercise aims to build the pupils' fluency in fundamental arithmetic operations and their ability to apply mathematical concepts to everyday contexts.