Year 4 · Mathematics and statistics · Algebra
Number sentences and growing patterns
True/false and open number sentences with all four operations, keeping a balance, and growing patterns that add, subtract or multiply.
Everything for this topic in one place
- 3D lesson: Number sentences and growing patterns — Keep a balance level to check true and false number sentences, find missing numbers, then grow block patterns that add, subtract or multiply.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 2 (Years 4–6), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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Place value to 10,000 and rounding · Adding and subtracting · Multiplication and division · Fractions and tenths · Money · Area, perimeter and volume · Angles and time · Polygons, symmetry and transformations · Dot plots and bar graphs