Position and Direction - Four Quadrants - Starter

In a mathematics session tailored for Year 6 students during the Autumn term, the class begins with a 'Fluent in Four' revision exercise. This includes a subtraction problem where students must subtract six hundreds and ninety-nine ones from a number consisting of eight thousands, three ones, and fifty-eight tens. The solution provided demonstrates the correct subtraction method, resulting in an answer of 3,774. Additionally, students are asked to identify the coordinates of points A, B, and C on a grid, which is a fundamental skill in understanding the four quadrants of a coordinate plane. The coordinates provided for these points are (3,7), (10,5), and (5,10) respectively.

The lesson continues with an activity focused on column addition, where students must solve a problem and write down the calculation, showing the exchange between place values. The exercise offers a visual representation of the exchange process, helping students to understand why it is necessary when numbers in one column exceed ten. Furthermore, the session includes a challenge involving the multiplication and division of the number 4.18 by powers of ten, requiring students to fill in missing numbers in a given diagram. This part of the lesson reinforces the concept of place value and the effect of multiplying and dividing by ten, hundred, and thousand on decimal numbers.