Extension Questions | Addition And Subtraction | Year 4

Deepen and develop your Year 4 pupils' understanding of addition and subtraction with these extension questions.

These 20 extension questions have been designed to allow pupils to go further in their understanding of addition and subtraction with a range of reasoning and problem solving questions.

This resource can be used as part of an extension activity for individual pupils or pairs or as part of a whole class discussion. Some teachers also set the extension questions as a homework activity or to provide additional challenges outside the classroom.

For those taking a maths mastery approach to teaching within a mixed ability class these extension questions are invaluable at allowing all pupils to work towards mastery of addition and subtraction.

This resource was created in response to teachers wanting more interesting and complex questions for their pupils, but also knowing that these questions take a long time to create.

We’ve now done the work so you don’t have to!

Suitable to use with mastery schemes such as White Rose.

What to expect from these Year 4 addition and subtraction extension questions:

• Identifying the odd one out in a set of addition and subtraction problems.
• Creating questions to fit a given answer in addition and subtraction.
• Discussing whether certain statements about addition are always, sometimes, or never true.
• Writing word problems for given addition calculations.
• Drawing pictorial representations for addition problems.
• Determining the truth of given statements about addition and subtraction.
• Intentionally making and explaining a mistake in addition calculations.
• Completing calculations with missing digits and proving the answers.
• Spotting mistakes in addition and subtraction problems.
• Identifying similarities and differences in addition and subtraction problems.
• Writing word problems for given subtraction calculations.
• Creating various calculations for a given part-whole model.