Fractions - What is a fraction? - Starter

The 'Fluent in Four' revision activity is designed for Year 5 students to hone their mathematical skills during the spring term, specifically in week 4. The session starts with a straightforward addition problem where students must add 3,457 to 438. In another task, they are challenged to understand place value by adding 42 hundreds and 24 ones to eight hundreds and seventy-five ones. Students are also presented with five digit cards, numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9, and instructed to arrange these cards to form a three-digit and a two-digit number, then multiply these numbers to find the answer. This activity not only tests their multiplication skills but also their ability to understand number placement and value.

Additionally, the activity includes a table where students must complete missing numbers in a series of multiplication and division problems involving the number 6. This reinforces their times tables and division skills. Students are also tasked with rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, and 1,000, providing practice in estimation and rounding. For example, they must round the number 7,809 to these increments, resulting in 7,810 when rounded to the nearest 10, 7,800 to the nearest 100, and 8,000 to the nearest 1,000. The varied exercises in this activity are designed to strengthen students' arithmetic proficiency in a structured and incremental manner.