Y4

Maths

Checking Strategies Reasoning and Problem Solving

Worksheet
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Help your children become familiar with the reasons behind using inverse operations to check answers in this Year 4 Checking Strategies Reasoning and Problem Solving resource. The questions included are differentiated to three levels of challenge, meaning everyone in your class can access their learning. To make things easier for you, we have also included an answer page that will cut your marking time significantly.

Use our varied fluency resource before this one to make sure children have a strong foundation of knowledge to build upon before they attempt these questions.


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