Max Maths, Year 4, Work Book, Counting to 10000

The 'Max Maths, Year 4, Work Book' presents a comprehensive practice section on counting up to 10,000, designed to enhance the numerical proficiency of Year 4 students. Practice 1 begins with exercises that involve counting using visual blocks, where students incrementally add hundreds, tens, or ones to base numbers such as 700, 1,250, and 3,577 to reach new totals. These activities are structured to help students understand and visualise the process of counting in sequences and recognise patterns in number sequences. For example, students add 100 repeatedly to the number 700, or incrementally add 10 to 1,260, and so on, reinforcing their understanding of place value and the decimal number system.

Subsequent tasks require students to continue counting in steps, filling in missing numbers to complete sequences. For instance, they are asked to count on from 1,001 in thousands, or from 3,605 in increments of 5, thereby practising skip counting. Another task involves filling in missing numbers in a sequence, where students must discern the pattern and calculate the next numbers in the sequence. Additionally, exercises include writing numbers represented by visual blocks or beads both in numerals and words, which helps to solidify the connection between numerical symbols and their word forms. The workbook also includes 'count on' exercises where students must identify and continue number sequences, further developing their counting skills and number sense.