{"product_id":"30-christmas-riddles-year-4","title":"30 Christmas Riddles Year 4","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThirty Christmas jokes locked behind three-digit subtraction and the tables to twelve.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e30 Christmas Riddles Year 4 turns the last weeks of term into number-fact practice your students volunteer for. Each of the ten sheets holds three festive riddles, a sixteen-slot code strip and a grid of sums — work out each answer, find it in the code strip, write the letter above it, and the punchline appears. Sheets 1 to 5 are subtraction with minuends up to 115. Sheets 6 to 10 are the multiplication facts to twelve and division by 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 — the trickier facts, not the comfortable ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the letters have to spell something, the sheets mark themselves. 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