Place value - Rounding to the nearest 1,000 - Starter

The 'Fluent in Four' revision exercise is an engaging starter activity for Year 4 students, designed to strengthen their understanding of place value and rounding numbers to the nearest 1,000. This particular task is set for Autumn Term, Week 3, Day 5. The worksheet presents a series of arithmetic problems that encourage children to practice their skills in adding money in pounds and pence, understanding the value of coins, and converting pence to pounds. For example, students are asked to calculate the sum of different amounts of money, with questions like '106p = £___ and ___p' and 'Altogether there is £__ and __p.' Additionally, the activity challenges students to identify the number of horizontal and vertical lines in a given figure and to order a set of numbers in descending order to find the total amount.

The exercise also includes a multiplication task where students are prompted to multiply '2 tens' by 5, reinforcing their comprehension of basic multiplication and its application to real-life scenarios. Furthermore, the worksheet offers fraction problems that require the students to perform calculations such as '2/5 + 2/9 = 7/9' and '4/5 - 2/5 =', helping them to grasp the concept of fractions and their addition and subtraction. The activity concludes with a question that asks students to arrange three given numbers from the greatest to the smallest, which serves to enhance their number sense and comparison skills. The variety of tasks in this starter activity ensures a comprehensive revision of key mathematical concepts for Year 4 students.