Mental Oral Starters - Year 5

Mental and oral starters for Year 5 Spring Teaching Sequence 12.

Addition and subtraction
Understand what each digit represents in numbers with one and two decimal places and recognise the equivalence between the decimal and fraction forms of halves, quarters, tenths and hundredths. Approximate first when calculating. Use strategies used to add/subtract pairs of whole two-digit numbers to add/subtract two-digit numbers with one decimal place, e.g. 7.4 + 1.9. Use expanded vertical addition to add pairs of four-digit numbers and find a difference between four-digit numbers e.g. 5431 – 4789 by drawing an empty number line. Know all multiplication and division facts for the 2 to 10 times tables.

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