Place value - Numbers to 10,000 - Starter

The lesson for Year 5 students delves into the concept of place value, focusing on numbers up to 10,000. It begins with a starter exercise where students are asked to perform a subtraction: 7,057 minus 2,007. Following this, they engage in a 'Fluent in Four' revision activity designed to consolidate their understanding of place value. The first part of this activity challenges students to conceptualise a part whole model and use comparison symbols to compare different values. They are also tasked with identifying the number of tenths and hundredths in given numbers.

Further exercises include a subtraction problem where students must take away seventeen hundreds and three ones from two thousand and fifteen, encouraging them to think critically about the value of each digit. The activity also includes a practical application of place value in the context of measuring distances, asking students to compare and convert measurements in kilometres and metres. They are guided to express these measurements in both fraction and decimal form, reinforcing the relationship between the two representations. The lesson concludes with a series of place value problems that students solve, such as writing 5,050 in expanded form and calculating the result of 2,015 minus 1,703. By the end of the session, students should have a deeper understanding of place value and be able to apply this knowledge to real-world scenarios.