Year 4 Addition and Subtraction: Extra Support Activities

These extra-support activities are designed to be used by a teacher or a TA with children who need extra support before they can access objectives for Year 4 Addition and Subtraction:

Mental subtraction including counting up
Mental addition and subtraction
Subtraction: frog with 3-digit numbers
Mental calculation: addition and subtraction including near multiples
Mental addition and subtraction with single-digit numbers to big numbers
Written subtraction

Find the Gap
Subtracting 2-digit numbers by using Frog (counting up), to give small answers, e.g. 53 - 47 and 70 - 55 (numbers either side of a multiple of 10, and subtracting from a multiple of 10).

Perfect Pairs
Using place value to add and subtract amounts of money (without crossing multiples of 10p and one pound)

Frog Goes Further!
Subtracting 2-digit numbers from 100, e.g. 100 - 65
Beginning to subtract 3-digit numbers from the next multiple of 100, e.g. 200 - 165

Swapping Digits
Adding and subtracting 1s, 10s, 100s to/from 3-digit numbers

How High Can You Jump?
Adding and subtracting 1-digit numbers to and from 3-digit numbers

Frogs Get Fitter
Using counting up (Frog) to subtract pairs of 2-digit numbers

Teach the Frog
Using counting up (Frog) to subtract pairs of 2-digit numbers; Using counting up (Frog) to subtract pairs of 3-digit numbers within the same century, e.g. 352 - 327

These Extra Support Activities are part of Hamilton’s Year 4 Addition and Subtraction block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.