Multiply and Divide by 10 - Year 4
Multiply and Divide by 10 - Year 4
Multiply and Divide by 10 - Year 4 builds confident powers-of-10 reasoning through explicit teaching, hands-on learning, differentiated practice, error analysis and assessment.
Students learn that multiplying or dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 changes the place value of each digit. The sequence moves beyond the unreliable “add or remove zeros” shortcut: students model digit shifts, work with whole numbers and decimals, use inverse operations, solve missing-number equations, identify patterns, correct misconceptions and explain their thinking in context.
The editable 17-slide presentation establishes the core concepts and worked examples. A colour classroom display, reusable spinner activity and three-page Power Path game support modelling, partner work and maths rotations. Eight black-and-white worksheet pages provide sequenced practice, each followed by a matching red-answer page. A 10-question editable quiz, two-page assessment with matching answers and five-level rubric complete the teaching and assessment cycle.
What’s Included
- Editable presentation — 17 PowerPoint slides
- Editable quiz — 22 PowerPoint slides, including 10 question-and-answer pairs
- Unit plan — 28-page PDF
- Clean Table of Contents page
- Power of 10 Place-Value Path colour classroom display
- Decimal Shift Spinner and Recording Mat colour activity pages
- Power Path Board Game with two sets of 12 colour challenge cards
- Eight black-and-white worksheet pages across seven sequenced resources
- Eight matching worksheet answer pages with red answers
- Power of 10 Mission two-page assessment
- Two matching assessment answer pages with red answers
- Five-level unit-specific rubric
Learning Focus
- Understand place-value changes created by multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000
- Calculate accurately with whole numbers and decimals
- Connect multiplication and division as inverse operations
- Solve and explain missing-number equations
- Identify, continue and generalise powers-of-10 patterns
- Diagnose common errors and justify corrections
- Apply powers-of-10 reasoning in contextual problems
Classroom Use
Suitable for whole-class explicit instruction, guided groups, maths rotations, partner games, independent practice, intervention, extension, homework, formative assessment and summative assessment. Use the complete set as an approximately one-week unit of 4–6 lessons or select resources independently.
Format and Answers
Includes PDF and editable PPTX files with 67 total pages/slides: 28 unit-plan pages, 17 presentation slides and 22 quiz slides. Ten answer pages are included, with red answer text for quick checking. Australian English is used throughout.
Digital Product Licence
This is a digital product; no physical item will be shipped. Purchase grants a single-user classroom licence. Files may be used with the purchaser’s own students but may not be shared, resold, redistributed, uploaded to public sites or included in another product.