The Year 4 Compare Numbers to 10,000 PowerPoint guides both teachers and children through the lesson, including use of the varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving, deeper reasoning and scaffolded resources. Key learning information about this step:
Key Vocabulary
place value chart: Used to identify the value of the digits that make up a number.
place value counters: A physical resource which represents numbers. They are usually in different colours and have different numbers written on them, to represent ‘ones’, ‘tens’, ‘hundreds’ etc.
placeholder: 0 is used to hold a place in a number and maintain its place value.
> < =: Comparison symbols used to represent more than (>), less than (<) and equal to (=).
Varied Fluency
Knowledge Organiser
• Designed to support all children via key information and examples.
For the purple sections of the four levels, copy and paste these from the first sheet of the varied fluency resource.
Scaffolded Examples
Guided practice comparing two numbers by counting thousands, hundreds, tens and ones in a place value chart and using inequality symbols.
Support
Q1: Comparing counters in place value charts, with both numbers given and all digits different.
Q2: Writing <, > or = where the numbers compared all have different digits.
Q3: Comparing two prices with one 3-digit number and one 4-digit number.
Core
Q1: Comparing counters in place value charts, with the thousands the same.
Q2: Writing <, > or = where some numbers share the same digit in the same place value column.
Q3: Comparing two scores where thousands and/or hundreds are the same.
Stretch
Q1: Comparing counters in place value charts, where only the tens differ.
Q2: Writing <, > or = including a partitioned number and equal pairs.
Q3: Comp
Reasoning and Problem Solving
Support
• Q1: Reasoning - explaining whether a character has correctly compared two four-digit numbers, including a placeholder 0.
• Q2: Reasoning - explaining the mistake in a symbol used to compare a place value chart with a number with a different digit count.
• Q3: Problem Solving - making two four-digit numbers from the same four digits, when neither number is given.
Core
• Q1: Reasoning - explaining whether a character has correctly compared two four-digit numbers, including a placeholder 0.
• Q2: Reasoning - explaining the mistake in a symbol used to compare a place value chart with a number with a different digit count.
• Q3: Problem Solving - making two four-digit numbers from the same four digits, when neither number is given.
Stretch
• Q1: Reasoning - explaining whether a character has correctly compared numbers with a different number of digits.
• Q2: Reasoning - explaining the mistake in a symbol used to compare a place value chart with a partitioned number.
• Q3: Problem Solving - making two four-digit numbers from the same four digits when both must be greater than a given value.
Deeper Reasoning
The questions in this set focus on problem solving with comparing numbers in different representations to deepen understanding in ordering and comparing numbers beyond 1,000 and solving number and practical problems with increasingly large positive numbers.
