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Step-by-step practice Maths textbook

Chapter 3: Column addition and subtraction

  • Strand Addition and subtraction
  • Level Level 4
  • Practice 105 questions with step-by-step solutions

Step-by-step practice: maths (Level 4). Small steps, repeated until fluent. Content: Add and subtract mentally a four-digit number and ones, tens or hundreds (AS1), Add and subtract up to four digits in columns, exchanging across two or more places (AS2), Estimate the answer and check it with the inverse operation (AS3), Solve missing number problems with four-digit numbers (AS4).

Open Level 4 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

  • Add and subtract a multiple of 10, 100 or 1000 in your head
  • Add two four-digit numbers in columns with carrying
  • Subtract two four-digit numbers in columns with exchange
  • Subtract across a zero in the middle
  • Estimate, check by the inverse, and find missing numbers

You should already know

  • Column addition and subtraction to 1000 (Level 3, chapters 4 and 5)
  • Place value to 10000 (chapter 1)
  • Rounding to 1000 (chapter 2)

Where this leads

  • Times tables 3 and 4 (chapter 4)

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 3.1 Adding and subtracting in your head
  2. 3.2 Column addition with carrying
  3. 3.3 Column subtraction with exchange
  4. 3.4 Subtraction with a zero in the middle
  5. 3.5 Estimating, checking and missing numbers
  6. Summary and key words
  7. Check-up and practice test questions

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