Year 4 · Numbers to 10,000

1000 more, 1000 less

Find 1000 more or less than a given number

20 minutes4 checks6 exit questionsNational curriculum objective

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Find 1000 more or less than a given number

Key learning points

• Find the thousands digit first
• Say it before you write it
• Crossing into ten thousands
• Chains and jumps

This lesson at a glance

20 minutes
19 parts to scroll through
4 quick checks
No marked quiz yet
Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

numberthousandsbeforecrossingchains

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Watch & discover

Part 1 of 19

Watch first

1000 more, 1000 less

Watch how ones build into tens, hundreds, thousands and beyond.

Do it for real

The practicals below use what the film shows, with a full method you can follow at home.

How big is a thousand really?Guess the jar, then round it

In a nutshell

Find 1000 more or less than a given number

What you already know

Part 2 of 19

Before we start

What you already know

You can partition four-digit numbers into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.

Recap: y4-maths-1

Key words

Part 3 of 19

Key words

Words you'll need today

more: A bigger amount — you add.
less: A smaller amount — you subtract.
thousands digit: The digit just before the comma in 3,462.

Learning cycle

Part 4 of 19

Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 — One digit changes

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

Explore the idea

Part 5 of 19

Learn

Find the thousands digit first

In 5,614 the thousands digit is 5. For 1000 more, make it 6: 6,614. For 1000 less, make it 4: 4,614. The hundreds, tens and ones never move, so do not rewrite them — copy them.

Explore the idea

Part 6 of 19

Learn

Say it before you write it

Read 3,208 as three thousand, two hundred and eight. A thousand more is four thousand, two hundred and eight. Saying it out loud stops you changing the wrong digit, which is the most common slip in this work.

Quick check

Part 7 of 19

Quick check

1000 more than 3,472 is

Quick check

Part 8 of 19

Quick check

1000 less than 6,085 is

Reset break

Part 9 of 19

Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now

Learning cycle

Part 10 of 19

Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 — When it gets tricky

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

Explore the idea

Part 11 of 19

Learn

Crossing into ten thousands

1000 more than 9,340 is 10,340. Nine thousands become ten thousands, so a new column opens up. Going the other way, 1000 less than 10,120 is 9,120 and the ten-thousands column closes again.

Explore the idea

Part 12 of 19

Learn

Chains and jumps

You can jump more than once: 2,700, then 3,700, then 4,700, then 5,700 is three jumps of 1000, which is the same as adding 3000. Spotting that saves time in word problems about savings or distances.

Quick check

Part 13 of 19

Quick check

1000 more than 9,600 is

Quick check

Part 14 of 19

Quick check

Three jumps of 1000 from 1,250 land on

Common mix-ups

Part 15 of 19

Common mix-ups

Things people often get wrong

Changing the hundreds digit instead of the thousands.
Writing 10,340 as 1,0340 when a new column opens.
Adding 100 instead of 1000 when the question is read too fast.

Challenge round

Part 16 of 19

Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

Challenge round

Part 17 of 19

Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

In 5,614 the ____ digit is 5.

Mastery quiz

Part 18 of 19

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Article

The cost of a school trip

A school is planning a trip to a wildlife park. The coach costs £480 however many people go. Entry costs £9.50 for each pupil and each adult goes free. The school says every pupil must pay the same amount, and the trip must not lose money.

If 60 pupils go, the coach works out at £8 each, so the total for each pupil is £17.50. If only 40 pupils go, the coach works out at £12 each, so the price rises to £21.50. The teacher explains that the coach is a fixed cost and the entry is a cost per person — which is why the price per pupil changes when the number changes.

The school decides to charge £20 and to use anything left over for a second trip later in the year.

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Reading questions

Work out the total cost of the trip if 50 pupils go.
Show why the price per pupil falls when more pupils go, using numbers.
At £20 each, how many pupils must go before the trip makes money? Show your working.

Working out
Working out
Do the practice questions on paper, showing every step — not just the answer. Mark them yourself and circle anything you got wrong.
10–15 questions
Worked example, explained
Writing
Copy one question out and write underneath, in words, why each step works.
1 question, 4–5 sentences
Problem in words
Working out
Write your own real-life problem that uses today's method, then solve it.
1 problem + solution

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