Year 4 Autumn Term Mathematics Lessons

Support your Year 4 learners with a comprehensive Autumn Term Mathematics programme designed to strengthen fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills. This resource contains 15 detailed lesson plans covering essential curriculum objectives, with clear learning outcomes, teacher guidance, engaging starter activities, guided and independent practice, reasoning challenges, problem-solving opportunities and assessment suggestions throughout.

Weekly Breakdown

Week 1

• Review column addition and subtraction.

• Identify addends and sums and use column addition accurately.

Week 2

• Secure place value to 1,000.

• Apply place value knowledge to addition and subtraction of multiples of 100.

Week 3

• Calculate and convert measures.

• Use knowledge of 1,000 to explain and perform common measure conversions.

Week 4

• Decompose 4-digit numbers in different ways.

• Use place value and number facts to represent numbers flexibly.

Week 5

• Compare and order 4-digit numbers.

• Apply place value knowledge to justify comparisons and ordering.

Week 6

• Add up to three 4-digit numbers using column addition.

• Develop fluency with regrouping and estimation strategies.

Week 7

• Subtract 4-digit numbers using column subtraction.

• Solve problems involving exchanging and inverse operations.

Week 8

• Calculate the perimeter of regular polygons using multiplication.

• Recognise efficient methods for finding perimeter.

Week 9

• Calculate the side length of a regular polygon when the perimeter is known.

• Apply multiplication and division facts to perimeter problems.

Week 10

• Represent counting in threes as the 3 times table.

• Connect repeated addition, arrays and multiplication facts.

Week 11

• Explain the relationship between adjacent multiples of three.

• Use known multiplication facts to generate new facts.

Week 12

• Explain the relationship between multiples of 3 and 6.

• Use doubling strategies and multiplication patterns.

Week 13

• Use divisibility rules to identify multiples of 3 and 6.

• Apply reasoning to determine divisibility efficiently.

Week 14

• Represent counting in nines as the 9 times table.

• Explore patterns and multiplication representations.

Week 15

• Use known facts from the 10 times table to solve problems involving the 9 times table.

• Develop efficient multiplication strategies.

What's Included?

• 15 detailed lesson plans

• Learning objectives and key learning points

• Engaging starter activities

• Teacher modelling and guided practice

• Independent tasks

• Reasoning and problem-solving activities

• Challenge questions

• Assessment opportunities

What's Included?

Each class includes 15 complete folders:

• Lesson Plans

• Full Teaching PowerPoints with activities and curated YouTube video links

• Editable, printable worksheets — differentiated for all abilities, with answers

• Engaging starter activities

• Learning objectives and key learning points

• Teacher modelling and guided practice

• Independent tasks

• Reasoning and problem-solving activities

• Challenge questions

• End-of-term assessments and examinations

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