Properties of Shape - Recognise and Describe 2D Shapes - Starter

The 'Properties of Shape' section in a Year 4 summer term curriculum focuses on recognising and describing 2D shapes. This particular starter activity is designed to warm up students' mathematical skills with a variety of tasks. One of the tasks involves a place value challenge where students are asked to add together numbers represented in thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones, and then further add an amount that is three more than fifty-seven tens. Additionally, students are presented with questions that require them to find the largest angle in given shapes or diagrams, testing their understanding of geometry.

Another part of the activity includes a number recognition exercise where students must identify a number from an image displaying hundreds, tens, and ones, and then write the numeral and its word form. To further develop their numerical literacy, there is a task related to fractions and decimals, where students must complete a table by converting fractions into their decimal equivalents. For example, they are shown how five tenths is equal to 0.5, and eight tenths to 0.8. Moreover, the students practice their addition skills with a sum that combines thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones, reinforcing their understanding of place value and arithmetic operations.