This article provides an outline of the test content assessed in the Year 4 Maths Autumn assessments.
Curriculum area | Curriculum statement | Curriculum year |
N: Number | 3N1b – count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 3N2b – find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number 3N3 – recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones) 3N4 – identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations 3N6 – solve number problems and practical problems involving 3N1-3N4 | 3 |
4N1 – count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000 4N2a – order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 4N2b – find 1,000 more or less than a given number 4N3a – recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones) 4N3b – read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value 4N4a – identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations 4N4b – round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000 4N5 – count backwards through zero to include negative numbers 4N6 – solve number and practical problems that involve 4N1-4N5 and with increasingly large positive numbers | 4 | |
C: Addition and subtraction | 1C4 – solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems such as 7 =? – 9 | 1
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2C1 – recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100 | 2 | |
3C1 – add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and ones; a three-digit number and tens; a three-digit number and hundreds 3C2 – add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction | 3 | |
4C2 – add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate 4C4 – solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why | 4 | |
C: Multiplication and division | 3C6 – recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables 3C7 – write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that pupils know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods | 3 |
4C6a – recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12 4C6b – use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers 4C6c – recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations 4C7 – multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout | 4 | |
C: Solve problems/ order of operations | 3C8 – solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects | 3 |
4C3 – estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation 4C8 – solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two-digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects | 4 | |
F: Fractions | 2F1a – recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3 (one-third), 1/4 (one-quarter), 2/4 (two-quarters) and 3/4 (three-quarters) of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity | 2 |
3F1b – recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators 3F2 – recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators 3F10 – solve problems that involve 3F1-3F4 | 3 | |
4F1 – count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by a hundred and dividing tenths by ten 4F4 – add and subtract fractions with the same denominator | 4 | |
F: Decimals, percentages, and equivalence | 4F6a – recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 4F6b – recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths 4F7 – round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number 4F8 – compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places 4F9 – find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredth 4F10b – solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places | 4 |
M: Measurement, area, perimeter, volume and time | 3M2a – measure lengths (m/cm/mm) | 3 |
4M1 – compare different measures, including money in pounds and pence 4M2 – estimate different measures, including money in pounds and pence 4M4a – read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12-hour clocks 4M4b – read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 24-hour clocks 4M4c – solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days 4M5 – convert between different units of measurement [e.g. kilometre to metre; hour to minute] 4M7a – measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres 4M7b – find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares |
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M: Measurement problem solving | 3M9a – add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both pounds (£) and pence (p) in practical contexts | 3 |
4M9 – calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence | 4 | |
G&P: Geometry, position, and direction | 3G4b – identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle | 3 |
4G2a – compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles based on their properties and sizes 4G2b – identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations 4P2 – describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down 4P3b – plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon | 4 | |
S:Statistics | 3S1 – interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables | 3 |
4S1 – interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs 4S2 – solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs | 4 |
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