Our fantastic Year 4 learners have been diving back into their understanding of place value—an essential building block in mathematics. To help support their learning and make abstract concepts more tangible, the children have been using concrete resources, such as Diennes, to revisit and deepen their knowledge.
To begin our place value recap, the children used their reciprocity and resourcefulness skills when working in small groups using base ten equipment to build and partition numbers. They practised making numbers up to 1,000 using hundreds, tens, and ones. These physical resources helped reinforce how a number is structured and what each digit really represents.
To stretch their understanding, children were also given number riddles and place value problems to solve. Questions like:
"I am a 3-digit number. My hundreds digit is double my ones digit, and the tens digit is 5. What could I be?"
These questions encourage deeper reasoning and discussion—key skills in developing strong mathematical thinking.
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" I used the dienes to make my number." - Success
" I made the number 4236 with 4 thousands, 2 hundreds, 3 tens and 6 ones." - Chirag
" I know there are 3 hundreds in the number 8362." - Millen
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