Key Stage Two : Maths : Year Four Planning : Term One : Unit A : Lesson Five – Number Jumps


This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record how the place value of digits change in a number when counting forwards and backwards in thousands. The class can use concrete equipment and diagrams to show how to count in steps of one thousand.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record how the place value of digits change in a number when counting forwards and backwards in thousands

Learning Objectives

Find one thousand more or less than a given number. Count in multiples of one thousand.

Learning Outcomes

I can say the numbers one thousand more or less than a number in thousands. I can count in steps of one thousand.

Number Jumps

Teaching sequence to help the children identify and record how the place value of digits change in a number when counting forwards and backwards in thousands

Number Jumps (cards)

Activity cards to help the children record sums that are one thousand more and less than different numbers in thousands

Number Jumps (template)

Template to help the children record sums that are one thousand more and less than different numbers in thousands

Next Thousand

Interactive activity to help the children practise counting forwards in steps of multiples of one thousand

Number Jumps

Interactive activity to help the children identify and record how the place value of digits change in a number when counting forwards and backwards in thousands

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and record how the place value of digits change in a number when counting forwards and backwards in thousands

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