Y4

Maths

Checking Strategies Mixed Activity

Worksheet
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There's nothing better than checking strategies to ensure you've got something right. Well, your class can do exactly that with this Year 4 Checking Strategies Main Activity. This resource includes three varied fluency questions, two reasoning questions and a problem-solving question all presented in a ready-to-complete format.

Use as an independent task in class for children to complete following your input. Alternatively, use this as a homework resource, an activity in an intervention group or as a challenge task. The choice is yours! The resource is a complete package with the answers provided to make marking easier, or use this as a peer or self-assessment tool.


Curriculum Objectives

  • Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate
  • Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation
  • Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why