Marvelous Maths

This week, Year 4 have solidified their understanding of place value and have begun to explore the world of thousands! We started with a discussion: where might we see 'thousands' in day to day life? Grains of sand in a handful, pebbles in our garden, thousands of people at a festival. Then we began to explore ways that we can manipulate and pick apart 3-digit and 4-digit numbers. We have now learned the important skill of flexible partitioning, which we practised with the help of place value counters. Here are some pictures to show what we did.