Year 4 domain plan
Number - Addition and subtraction
Mental fluency
Addition and subtraction
Pupils should be taught to:
add and subtract numbers mentally
including; a three digit number and
ones, a three digit number and
tens; a three digit number and
hundreds (Year 3)
Rehearse methods identified on the
school calculation policy for Year 4
Number and place value link
find 1000 more or less than a given
number
Written fluency
Addition and subtraction
Pupils should be taught to:
add and subtract numbers with up
to 4 digits using the formal written
methods of columnar addition and
subtraction where appropriate
As identified by the school’s calculation
policy
Estimate, use inverse and check
Addition and subtraction
Pupils should be taught to:
estimate and use inverse
operations to check answers to a
calculation
Solve problems
Addition and subtraction
Pupils should be taught to:
solve addition and
subtraction two-step
problems in contexts,
deciding which
operations and
methods to use and
why
Statements
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Rehearse mental methods identified by calculation policy
add and subtract numbers mentally including; a three digit number and
ones, a three digit number and tens; a three digit number and hundreds
(Year 3 – 3C1)
round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000 (number and place
value – 4N4b)
add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written
methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate 4C2
estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation
4C3
solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding
which operations and methods to use and why 4C4
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Notes and guidance (non-statutory)
Pupils continue to practise both mental methods and columnar addition and subtraction with increasingly large
numbers to aid fluency (see Mathematics Appendix 1).
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Number and place value link
round any number to the nearest
10, 100 or 1000