What’s included in the Year 4 Estimate Answers Homework resource and why is it useful?

Year 4 Estimate Answers Homework is a set of worksheets to consolidate this step after it has been taught, at home or in class. Each set has been carefully designed to help you meet each child where they are at to ensure progress for every child, not just the average child. The content includes 3 levelled worksheets and a full answer sheet, covering estimating answers by rounding numbers up to 10,000 to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.

Developing

• Q1 matching rounded calculations by deciding whether numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10 or 100, with use of place value counters to support.
• Q2 ticking the best estimation of a given calculation. Includes numbers up to 1,000, with rounding to the nearest 10 or 100. Use of place value counters to support.
• Q3 identifying how a number has been rounded in different ways and explaining which one is the most accurate. Includes numbers up to 1,000, with rounding to the nearest 10 or 100. Use of place value counters to support.

Expected

• Q4 matching calculations with a suitable one which could be used to estimate the answer. Decide whether numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. Includes numbers up to 10,000. Numerals only.
• Q5 ticking the best estimation of a given calculation. Includes numbers up to 10,000, with rounding up to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. Numerals only.
• Q6 identifying how a number has been rounded in different ways and explaining which one is the most accurate. Includes numbers up to 10,000, with rounding up to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. Numerals only.

Greater Depth

• Q7 matching calculations with a suitable one which could be used to estimate the answer. Decide whether numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. Includes numbers up to 10,000. Numerals and words.
• Q8 ticking the best estimation of a given calculation. Includes numbers up to 10,000, with rounding up to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. Numerals and words.
• Q9 identifying how a number has been rounded in different ways and explaining which one is the most accurate. Includes numbers up to 10,000, with rounding up to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. Numerals, words and unconventional partitioning.

How do our maths homework resources work?

Our maths homework resources are not part of our adaptive maths resources, but they can be used alongside for consolidation purposes and to give children more opportunities to practise.

To teach this full step, head to Year 4 Estimate Answers lesson page.

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