Year 4 Problem Solving Activity

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 4 Problem Solving Activity includes five interactive questions designed to check pupils’ understanding of multiplying, adding and scaling to solve problems. Pupils will have to will have to work out total costs when one item is more expensive than another, compare the growth of two plants, calculate the total number of marbles, and scale up ingredients for a recipe.

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National Curriculum Objectives

Number: Multiplication and Division
Mathematics Year 4: (4C8) Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects