Y4 Maths
This Year 4 Describe Movement lesson covers the prior learning of describing movements and turns, before moving onto the main skill of describing movement.
The lesson starts with a prior learning worksheet to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning by completing an engaging extension task.
National Curriculum Objective
Mathematics Year 4: (4P2) Describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down
Mathematics Year 4: (4P3a) Describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant
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These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of describing movements and turns, before moving onto the main skill of describing movement. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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This powerpoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the Varied Fluency and Reasoning & Problem Solving worksheets as part of this lesson.
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These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
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This worksheet recaps prior learning of describing movements and turns, before moving onto the main skill of describing movement.
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This Year 2 Describing Turns Game checks pupils' understanding of describing turns using half, quarter, full, and three-quarter turns, clockwise and anti-clockwise.
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This Year 2 Describing Movement Game checks pupils' understanding of describing movement of objects using forwards, backwards, up, down, left and right.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to practise the main skill of this lesson.
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This Year 4 Describe Movement on a Grid Game has been designed to check pupils’ understanding of translation of points across a grid using left/right and up/down.
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These Year 4 Describe Movement on a Grid Flashcards have been designed to check pupils’ understanding of translation of points across a grid using left/right and up/down.
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This describe movement extension task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the describe movement lesson.
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This worksheet includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of describing movement.
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This differentiated worksheet includes reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This worksheet includes two discussion problems which can be used in pairs or small groups to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in this lesson.
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Challenge your pupils' knowledge of describing movements between positions by completing this Year 4 Translations Maths Challenge.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This Position and Direction Consolidation Year 4 resource will help your pupils consolidate their understanding of Summer Block 6: Position and Direction.