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Staff checks, answer boundaries and next teaching movesYear 4 Inquiry · T1 W3–4 · Teacher key

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Keep this page with the teacher. Use the child's first response, the exact prompt/support and later revision as separate notes. A fluent explanation after adult modelling is useful practice but does not retroactively make the first response independent. These are formative project checks; the separate subject packs hold Day 15/20 unseen assessments. The learner cards contain no worked solution.

Day Mathematical / text answer boundary If the child needs another move
11 Text A invites, B gives ordered steps, C explains. A 0–1 strip needs ten equal gaps; 0.7 is the seventh tenth gap from zero. The number is a model position. Rebuild ten spaces with ten equal broad cards; ask which sentence helps a visitor start.
12 On 0.20–0.30 divided into ten equal hundredth gaps, 0.23 is third and 0.28 eighth. A heading helps locate the instruction; the visitor can test it. Put 0.20 and 0.30 at ends first, then count spaces. If the text hides a step, ask the child to point where a new reader stops.
13 1.3 = 1.30, so 1.03 is nearer 1; it is three hundredths after 1, whereas 1.3 is thirty hundredths after 1. A 0–2 tenths rail cannot locate 1.03 exactly without a close-up. Align places in 1.03 and 1.30, then use two nested lines. Avoid deciding by numeral length.
14 Equal numerical increments need equal drawn gaps on a linear number rail. On 0.40–0.50, 0.42 is before 0.47 by 0.05. Text D is one invented opinion, not a real user study. Repair scale with same-width cards. Ask whether the label, gap or evidence in the visitor sentence was the problem.
15 0.65 is fifth of ten equal hundredth steps from 0.60 toward 0.70, halfway in that interval. Accept large print, tactile placement, speech or AAC with the same endpoints. Build 0.60, 0.61 … 0.70 in order; retest on a different blank strip later. Record whether the adult placed under child direction.
16 With same-size wholes and equal parts, 1/2 = 5/10 = 0.5 = 0.50 at the midpoint. A larger physical strip cannot be silently substituted. Align the two whole strips at both ends, then partition. If the labels are right but parts unequal, score model construction as not yet secure.
17 1/4 = 25/100 = 0.25; 3/4 = 75/100 = 0.75, provided the wholes are fixed and each part equal. “I liked it” is an opinion, not proof of that equivalence. Fold or partition 100 equal cells into four groups of 25; compare the two same-size wholes and revise the claim.
18 2/5 = 4/10 = 0.4 = 0.40. Halve each fifth to make ten equal parts without changing the whole. A good visitor text supplies a step and an explanatory reason. Ask for two pieces per fifth; count four tenths shaded and place 0.4 on a 0–1 rail. Avoid numerator-only decimal guesses.
19 3/5 = 6/10 = 0.6 = 0.60 on matching wholes. The paper rail does not prove a physical route, access feature or real visitor preference. A short heading/step/reason/limit can serve a chosen audience. Separate opinion from mathematical evidence; ask “which whole?” and “what can this model not tell us?”.
20 4/5 = 8/10 = 0.8 = 0.80 on matching equal wholes. Record if the final audience was real, private or an invented role, and whether an edit followed actual feedback. Show one fifth as two tenths on a different matching model, then invite the child to rebuild four fifths; keep the original attempt.

Cross-check calculations: 0.47 − 0.42 = 0.05; 1.30 − 1.03 = 0.27; 0.65 − 0.60 = 0.05. Decimal and fraction equalities above are exact for the fixed whole, not rounded. A model with unequal panels or a changed whole is a useful counterexample; it is not evidence for the equivalence.

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