Term 4 focus topics for home learning:

- Number bonds

- Column subtraction (across 10 and 100)

Please find some useful links, worksheets and games that you can access with your children to help them with our focus topics at home.

NUMBER BONDS

Links

 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zx3982p
 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zr87xbk
 - https://vimeo.com/732387212?fl=pl&fe=sh
 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znmpf4j#znkhkhv
 - https://vimeo.com/732387078?fl=pl&fe=sh
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
- https://numbots.com/

Games

1. Ten Frames + Counters

What you need:
Tens frame (or draw one), coins/pasta/lego

How to play:

• Parent says a number (e.g. 6)
• Child fills that many spaces
• Child works out how many more to make 10

➡️ Extend to 20 or 100 using two frames or a 100 square.

2. Target Number Throw

What you need:
2 dice (or number cards), paper

How to play:

• Roll two numbers
• Add them
• How far away from 10 (or 20) are you?
• Say the bond out loud

Example: “7 + 1 = 8, I need 2 more to make 10.”

3. Make 10 / Make 20 Snap

What you need:
Number cards 0–10 (or playing cards, no pictures)

How to play:

• Turn over two cards
• If they make 10 → SNAP!
• First to say the full sentence wins:
  “7 and 3 make 10.”

🔥 Extra challenge: make 20 or 100 using 3 cards.

4. Part–Whole Build

What you need:
Lego bricks or cubes

How to play:

• Build a tower of 10
• Snap off part of it
• Child says:
  “The whole is 10, the parts are ___ and ___.”

COLUMN SUBTRACTION (ACROSS 10 AND 100)

Links

- https://vimeo.com/731052793?fl=pl&fe=sh
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zc78srd#zqvmg2p
 - https://vimeo.com/731053730?fl=pl&fe=sh

Games

1. The Coin Exchange Game

What you need:
10p and 1p coins (or counters labelled T and O)

How to play:

• Build a number (e.g. 42 = 4 tens, 2 ones)
• Try to subtract a number needing exchange (e.g. –18)
• If you can’t take from the ones, exchange a ten

🗣 Key language:

“I can’t take 8 ones from 2 ones, so I exchange a ten.”

2. Base-10 Subtraction Build

What you need:
Straws, bundles of 10, or lego sticks

How to play:

• Build the starting number
• Physically remove what you are subtracting
• When stuck, swap a ten for ten ones