Rapid Reasoning | Weeks 31 to 36 | Year 4

Develop your pupils’ confidence in problem solving and reasoning with daily Rapid Reasoning questions for weeks 31 to 36 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 31: Focuses on exploring equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers, converting between fractions and decimals, and multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.

• Week 32: Introduces understanding angles as turns, identifying, comparing, and ordering angles, and recognising different types of triangles.

• Week 33: Covers exploring different types of quadrilaterals and polygons, identifying lines of symmetry, and completing symmetric figures.

• Week 34: Involves interpreting and drawing bar charts and pictograms, solving comparison, sum, and difference problems using discrete data, and interpreting and drawing line graphs.

• Week 35: Concentrates on describing positions using coordinates, plotting coordinates, and drawing 2-D shapes on a grid.

• Week 36: Focuses on drawing 2-D shapes on a grid, translating points on a grid, and describing translations on a grid.