Find unknown values: Year 4 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 4 is for the topic of Find unknown values. Students further develop their algebraic thinking and strategies to find missing or unknown numbers in addition and subtraction related problems.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 4
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Algebra
Topics	Algebraic expressions
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M3A01 Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction as inverse operations, apply to partition numbers and find unknown values in number sentences AC9M4A01 Find unknown values in numerical equations involving addition and subtraction, using the properties of numbers and operations
Numeracy progression	Additive strategies (P8) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P3, P4)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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