Money - Ordering Money - Starter

In a mathematics session aimed at Year 4 pupils during the summer term, children are challenged with a variety of arithmetic problems to strengthen their understanding of money and calculation strategies. The starter activity presents a subtraction problem where students must subtract a number that is one less than 600 and 90 from 4578. This exercise not only tests their subtraction skills but also their understanding of place value and the concept of 'one less than'. Following this, pupils are tasked with converting different amounts into pence and pounds, thereby practising their skills in handling money and decimal notation.

The lesson continues with an exploration of the relationships between numbers through addition and subtraction. Given the sum of 3,487 and 4,894 equals 8,381, students are encouraged to deduce other related facts, such as the inverse operations and swapping the order of addends. This activity deepens their comprehension of the commutative property of addition and the concept of inverse operations. The session concludes with a spatial reasoning task, where children must arrange shapes in descending order of area, further enhancing their ability to compare and order different measurements. This diverse range of activities ensures a comprehensive understanding of numerical operations and their practical application in everyday contexts.