Rapid Reasoning | Weeks 13 to 18 | Year 4

Develop your pupils’ confidence in problem solving and reasoning with daily Rapid Reasoning questions for weeks 13 to 18 of Year 4.

With 90 questions spread across the 6 weeks you have 3 questions a day to show in an editable PowerPoint presentation. They follow a clear progression in terms of both content domain and cognitive demand and will introduce pupils to a wide variety of reasoning and problem solving question types.

This daily practice resource is designed to help overcome pupils’ barriers to reasoning and problem solving in KS2 and to develop confidence in tackling the varied and complex questions that they may encounter in their KS2 SATs.

Like all Third Space Learning resources, Rapid Reasoning follows a maths mastery approach. Pupils are encouraged to develop depth in a single topic over the course of a week to allow them to build up their knowledge gradually.

Rapid Reasoning was created as a partner resource to the very popular Fluent in Five. Regular daily practice of 10 to 20 minutes, when possible, will help you to achieve the best results.

The resource also includes support in teaching problem solving and reasoning as well as worked examples to help scaffold and develop pupils’ skills.

Suitable to use with mastery schemes such as White Rose.

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Topic breakdown per week

• Week 13: Focuses on identifying factor pairs, using them for equivalent calculations, multiplying by 10 and 100, and dividing by 10.

• Week 14: Concentrates on dividing by 100, exploring related multiplication and division facts, using informal written methods for multiplication, and multiplying 2-digit and 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number.

• Week 15: Covers dividing 2-digit numbers by a 1-digit number with and without remainders, dividing 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers, using multiplication to calculate possible combinations of item sets, and choosing the most efficient multiplication method.

• Week 16: Involves measuring in meters and kilometres, converting between meters and kilometres, calculating perimeters on grids, and calculating the perimeters of rectangles and rectilinear shapes (with and without grids).

• Week 17: Focuses on finding missing lengths in rectilinear shapes, calculating perimeters of rectilinear shapes (without grids), and regular and irregular polygons, including calculating irregular missing sides on irregular polygons.

• Week 18: Introduces understanding fractions as a whole, counting in fractions beyond 1, partitioning mixed numbers in different ways, labelling mixed numbers on a number line, and comparing and ordering mixed numbers.