Place value - Negative Numbers - Starter

The 'Fluent in Four' revision exercise begins with a straightforward multiplication question, asking the student to calculate 8 times 8, which equals 64. The focus then shifts to comparing products, with the task to determine how much greater 6 times 18 is compared to 4 times 12. In a practical scenario, students are tasked with solving a real-world problem: a party with 84,231 attendees requires tickets, which are sold in batches of 10,000. The exercise challenges students to decide how many batches should be purchased, highlighting that rounding to the nearest 10,000 would not provide enough tickets, as 84,231 rounded down is 80,000, which falls short of the required amount.

The worksheet continues with a data interpretation activity, where students must tally the total number of cakes sold from Monday to Thursday. With the given figures—139 on Monday, 86 on Tuesday, 103 on Wednesday, and 96 on Thursday—the total comes to 424 cakes. Students are then asked to identify which day roughly a quarter of the cakes were sold, which is Wednesday, and to calculate the difference in sales between Tuesday and Wednesday, which is 17 cakes. The rounding exercise presents a number, 7,457, and asks students to round it to the nearest 1,000, resulting in 7,000. Finally, students are asked to multiply 100 by 8, yielding 800, and to consider whether this goes against the rounding rule, encouraging them to engage with the concept of rounding and its implications in various contexts.