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Plan Bench · Teacher guideYear 4 Maths · T2 W13–14 · Teacher · Teacher / Tool guide

The lesson plan has been reviewed. These lesson pages, materials and optional Plan Bench are still awaiting independent checks and a walkthrough before release. Review each activity for your learners and school plan. Printing, assistive technology and classroom use have not yet been trialled. Read-aloud scripts are written only; recorded audio and reviewed translations are not included. This fortnight does not cover a full year or have approval for every state.

Start with one useful job

• Read one complete activity and its fictional brief. Keep the teacher example separate from the learner's own work.

• Choose Plan, Model, Check or Explain. All eight response spaces begin empty. Use only the parts that help with the current job.

• In Model, choose one named marker, choose its destination, then select Move. Each marker stays one whole item in exactly one place. The Bench does not count groups, supply answers or give grades.

• For more than 100 items or ten groups, use paper or choose and label a bundle that stands for several items. Explain what each marker represents.

Keep, compare and restore two versions

Save deliberately keeps the complete current draft: all eight responses, including blanks, the activity or own brief, the chosen view, marker positions, unit and where you were working in the text. You can keep two versions.

Compare lets you read both versions without changing your current work. Restore asks before replacing the current draft with the whole chosen version. Deliberately blank answers are restored as blanks. Compare opens at its heading, so read the explanations from the top. The reader shows your complete words and kept marker model first. Text selection details are available in a closed optional section.

Clear current keeps the two saved versions. Clearing saved versions is a separate choice. Changing what a marker stands for asks for confirmation when words or a model could be affected. Finish or cancel a confirmation before changing other work. Cancel or Escape keeps the draft as it was when the question opened and returns you to the control you used.

Typing and a manual fallback

With the helper working, each response allows up to 1,200 text characters. Separate accents and joined emoji can count as several characters. If an edit goes over the helper limit, the whole edit is declined and your previous words and text selection return.

If the helper is unavailable, type manually or use paper. Automatic counts, model controls and saved-version actions are unavailable; any displayed helper counts will not update. The browser has its own typing limit and may count emoji differently, so this manual mode does not promise the helper's limit or edit protection. A failed helper does not restart itself over your words.

Read the source without losing your draft

The complete source can be opened on the same page, including when the helper is unavailable. For the assessment activities, use the matching source beside the four response spaces and the matching four-space paper page. Keep teacher examples out of these learner pages.

With Choose a complete brief focused, use the Up and Down arrow keys to choose a brief. Choosing a different supplied brief leaves your words, model and kept versions intact. Your own brief remains available when you return to it.

Select Read my full brief to open the whole chosen brief. It opens at the heading. Tab moves from the heading to Back to brief chooser; Shift+Tab moves back to the heading. Back or Escape closes the dialog and returns to the brief chooser. An unmodified Tab from Back, or Shift+Tab from the heading, also closes it and returns there.

Choosing an own unit opens its details. Write the unit, then select Apply when you mean to use it; typing the unit alone does not change the model.

Opening and closing the source on the same page keeps the current draft. Leaving the page, reloading it or using browser Back can lose the draft and both kept versions. Make a paper or manual copy before leaving. A kept version is temporary, not a saved file.

Privacy and other ways to work

There are no accounts, AI suggestions, tracking, automatic copying or automatic sound. The Bench does not send or store learner work. Use paper, drawing, talking, signing, dictation or physical pieces whenever they serve the same mathematical purpose. A general undo facility is not promised: read each confirmation and keep a copy of important work.

Full technical and original planning contract records the exact text limits, keyboard behaviour and other requirements of the dated lesson plan. Its historical status is retained; it is separate from the review status of the current materials.

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