Money - Give Change - Starter

In a mathematics exercise designed for Year 4 students during the Summer Term, pupils are presented with a variety of problems to solve. The first task involves understanding place value to perform a subtraction: one thousand, twenty-eight tens, and four ones minus eight hundreds, nine tens, and seven ones. The second problem is a practical application of subtraction in a real-life context, where Tia has £4 and 72p and needs to calculate how much money she has left after giving £2 and 48p to a friend. This requires the students to subtract the pounds and pence separately to arrive at the correct amount remaining.

Another part of the exercise focuses on estimation and addition skills. Students are asked to match a series of addition problems with their closest estimates, such as pairing 1,358 + 6,565 with 1,000 + 7,000 for a good estimate. This helps reinforce mental maths strategies and the concept of rounding to the nearest hundred or thousand. Additionally, the worksheet includes a bar model to represent fractions and division. Using the model, students determine that if one part equals eight counters, then four parts will equate to thirty-two counters, thereby calculating the whole. These exercises are designed to enhance the students' fluency in arithmetic operations and their understanding of mathematical concepts.