Fractions - Calculate quantities - Starter

The educational resource from masterthecurriculum.co.uk provides a series of engaging mathematical problems for Year 4 students, focusing on the Spring Term's eighth week. The "Fluent in Four - Revision" section tests students' proficiency with various arithmetic operations. For instance, students are tasked with calculating the time as 27 minutes past 7 in the morning, solving division questions such as 84 divided by 7, and applying their multiplication and division skills to find the result of (16 × 25) divided by double 4. Additionally, they use the bar model to represent and calculate quantities, a visual aid that helps in understanding fractions and division.

The exercises also include practical word problems to connect mathematics with real-world scenarios. Students calculate fractions of a number, such as finding one-fourth and three-fourths of 32, and they determine the total number of legs for a group of spiders, multiplying eight legs by four spiders to get 32. Symmetry is explored by identifying figures with only a horizontal line of symmetry. The resource also incorporates a sports theme, asking students to add up the goals scored by famous forwards—Kane, Salah, and Sterling—to reinforce addition skills. Lastly, the children compare masses using the greater than, less than, or equal to symbols, and they calculate the whole from a part using the bar model, enhancing their understanding of fractions and proportional reasoning.