Year 4 – Multiplication and Division

The children previously knew their 3, 4 and 8 times table as they had learnt these in year 3. The children also knew their 2, 5 and 10 times tables and they had learnt these in year 2. Therefore we started the topic by going over these times tables and looking at patters to how we could use them to help us with trickier calculations. Such as using 5 x 6 and 1 x 6 to work out 6 x 6. The children used lots of counters, arrays and diagrams to help with their learning. Once the children became confident with this we then moved on to division and looked at the relationship between multiplication and division. The children soon learnt abut inverse and how using our multiplication can help us with our division. We then used counters and base ten to work out our division. We grouped and shared depending on what the question was asking us to do. Eventually, we moved on to looking at dividing with remainders. From this we are then going to move onto long multiplication and division next half term.