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5 outdoor lesson plans for Year 4 maths place value

Year 4 Place Value - Unit 1

This active, outdoor unit brings place value and rounding to life through large-scale, collaborative activities using natural resources. With creative games, problem-solving challenges, and plenty of movement, children secure key maths skills in a memorable, hands-on way.

Lesson Plans

Rounding numbers to the nearest 10

The main activity of this outdoor lesson helps your children to visualise the concept of rounding and applying this in a practical way, while working large-scale. There’s plenty of active movement involved and minimal preparation required!

Learning objective:

To round numbers to the nearest 10.

Rounding numbers to the nearest 100

This outdoor lesson gives your children the opportunity to cover the key skills for place value and apply these to rounding to the nearest 100. Your children will play bingo, work with nature and work collaboratively in this creative lesson.

Learning objective:

To round numbers to the nearest 100.

Recognising the value of each digit in 4-digit numbers

Deepen your children’s understanding of 4-digit numbers using this practical and hands-on outdoor lesson. Your children will work collaboratively with natural resources, sticky notes and chalk to secure their understanding of place value.

Learning objective:

To recognise the value of each digit in a 4-digit number.

Partitioning 4-digit numbers

Incorporating both individual and paired work, this practical outdoor lesson gives your children the opportunity to represent 4-digit numbers in different ways, through the use of natural resources and partner challenges!

Learning objective:

To partition 4-digit numbers in different ways.

Representing numbers to 10,000

Have your children apply their place value knowledge covered so far in this unit through blank number line challenges! Using this outdoor lesson will ensure your children are able to problem-solve, as well as understand how numbers fit within the number system.

Learning objective:

To represent numbers to 10,000 on a number line.

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