Block 4: Consolidation

Purchasing various items from a vending machine. Tricky calculating with money.

Tricky calculations working out the best and worst meal deals.

Solving one-step word problems with large numbers.

Reading and writing large numbers with the aid of a place value grid.

Reading and writing very large numbers: harder than it seems!

Rounding very large numbers to the nearest ten thousand and rounding populations to the nearest million.

Finding the value of digits including tenths, hundredths and thousandths.

More on decimals and place value.

Using place value charts to help understanding of dividing decimals by 10 and 100.

Co-ordinates in four quadrants are an excellent way to demonstrate knowledge of negative numbers.

Estimating on a 0 to 10000 number line and making approximate answers to calculations.

It is very important that when faced with a series of calculations in a line that they are calculated in the correct order. Believe it or not this may not be the order that they come!

Rule: calculate both sets of brackets first.