Curriculum overview: Year 4 Maths - Spring

2N6 – use place value and number facts to solve problems 

3N2a – compare and order numbers up to 1,000; read and write numbers to 1,000 in numerals and in words 

3N2b – find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number 

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) 

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 

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 

3C4 – solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction 

4C2 – add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate 

2C6 – recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers 

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 

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 

3C3 – estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers 

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 

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    

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 

3F4 – add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole [e.g. 5/7 + 1/7 = 6/7] 

3F10 – solve problems that involve 3F1-3F4 

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 

4F10a – solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number 

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 

3M2a – measure lengths (m/cm/mm) 

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 

4M9 – calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence    

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 

4G4 – identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size 

4P2 – describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left / right and up / down 

4P3a – describe positions on a 2-D grid as co-ordinates in the first quadrant 

4P3b – plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon