The Year 4 Roman Numerals 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
Roman numerals: Letters used to represent numbers, for example I, V, X, L and C.
partitioning: The splitting of a number into different parts. For example: the number 547 can be partitioned into 500, 40 and 7.
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.
Scaffolded Examples
Reading a Roman numeral, writing a number from digit cards and comparing two Roman numerals.
Support
• Q1: Reading a Roman numeral in a table, with the tens and ones parts given.
• Q2: Writing a number from digit cards, with the partition given.
• Q3: Comparing two Roman numerals, with a table showing multiples of ten to help.
Core
• Q1: Reading a Roman numeral in a table.
• Q2: Writing a number from digit cards as a Roman numeral.
• Q3: Comparing two Roman numerals using <, > or =.
Stretch
• Q1: Reading a Roman numeral and writing a number as a Roman numeral.
• Q2: Making the greatest 2-digit number from three digit cards, then writing it.
• Q3: Comparing a Roman numeral with a calculation in Roman numerals.
Reasoning and Problem Solving
Support
• Q1: Reasoning – explaining whether a character has compared two Roman numerals correctly using a stem sentence to help.
• Q2: Reasoning - explaining whether a character has correctly described how a multiple of ten is written.
• Q3: Problem Solving - finding numbers written using only two given letters.
Core
• Q1: Reasoning - explaining whether a character has compared two Roman numerals correctly.
• Q2: Reasoning - explaining whether a character is right about how numbers with a placeholder are written.
• Q3: Problem Solving - finding numbers written with exactly three letters that meet a size condition.
Stretch
• Q1: Reasoning - explaining whether a character has compared two Roman numerals correctly where subtraction of an amount is required to work out the value of each number.
• Q2: Reasoning - explaining whether a character is right about a general statement covering 1 to 100.
• Q3: Problem Solving - finding numbers written with exactly four letters that meet two conditions.
Deeper Reasoning
The questions in this set focus on problem solving with roman numerals to deepen understanding in reading Roman numerals to 100.
