Fractions - Subtract fractions - Starter

The starter activity for Year 4's Spring Term, Week 7, Day 3, focuses on subtracting fractions and includes a 'Fluent in Four' revision section to consolidate students' arithmetic skills. In the first part, students are presented with multiplication problems that require finding a missing factor, such as 7 multiplied by what equals 56, and 12 multiplied by what equals 4 times 9. The second part of the activity is designed to strengthen their understanding of adding fractions with the same denominator. Students are tasked with summing three fractions—3/7, 2/7, and 5/7—to find the total.

The lesson also integrates a practical word problem involving multiplication and division. Students must figure out how many cars are in a car park, given that each car has 4 wheels and there are a total of 40 wheels. By dividing the total number of wheels by the number of wheels per car, students can determine that there are 10 cars in the car park. Additionally, the activity includes a classification challenge where students must identify shapes based on the number of right angles they possess, ranging from zero to four or more, enhancing their geometrical understanding alongside their numerical skills.