ANY BOOKLISTS HERE ARE FOR THE OLDER WEEKLY PLANS – they are NOT for the new Flexible Blocks which have their own booklists accessible here: https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/flexible-blocks-booklists/
Flexible Blocks
Maths: Hamilton's short maths blocks have all the benefits of our weekly plans. They also provide support and resources that were simply not possible when we produced the weekly plans. Find out about the advantages of short blocks.
Problem-solving Investigations - Year 4
The problem-solving investigations below match Hamilton’s weekly maths plans. We now also provide Year 4 maths as short blocks. We will eventually be phasing out the plans, as we believe our short blocks offer you all of the same advantages and more, including the integration of the problem-solving investigations into each unit of study. Find out more about the advantages of Hamilton's short blocks.
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Children use the arrangement of digits on a magic square to create one-place decimals. They use logic to demonstrate that they have found all the possibilities.
Children use logic and addition, along with some trial and improvement to solve a problem involving money.
Children add two 3-digit numbers and subtract a pair of 3-digit numbers to find patterns. They use mathematical reasoning to begin to explain what they find.
Timeline (1): Children use their knowledge about millimetres, centimetres and metres to create a scale timeline from 0 to the current year, and gain some sense of the order of historical events. Pencil power (2): Children use larger weights and numbers to find an accurate weight of one pencil by collecting data on a bar graph.
Children find equivalent fractions to cross numbers on a 6 x 6 square. They use reasoning strategies and knowledge of factors to find their highest score.
Using their knowledge of multiplication facts and place value children work out which single-digit numbers and multiples of 10 have given products in order to solve a puzzle.
Children consider whether given calculations are harder or easier and work out a scoring system.
Children create subtractions using three contiguous numbers selected from a mobile phone display.
Children apply their knowledge of 24 hour digital clocks and look at their reflections in a mirror.
Children find the digital roots of multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. They identify patterns and relate those to the properties of numbers.
Children divide 11, 22, 33 up to 99 by 3, 4, 5 and so on up to 12 and look for patterns in the remainders.