Key Stage 2 · Year 4 · ages 8 or 9
Year 4 maths: what your child learns
In Year 4 children learn the times tables up to 12 × 12, which the Multiplication Tables Check tests in June. They also use column addition and subtraction with four-digit numbers, short multiplication, negative numbers, hundredths and decimals, area and perimeter, and 24-hour time. Coordinates, symmetry, bar charts and Roman numerals to 100 are covered too.
Guides for parents
Year 4 maths
Column addition and subtraction
How Year 4 children add and subtract four-digit numbers in columns, estimate and check with inverse operations, and solve two-step problems, with a worked example.
Year 4 maths
Decimals: tenths and hundredths
How Year 4 children link fractions and decimals: tenths, hundredths, dividing by 10 and 100, rounding to the nearest whole number, comparing decimals and money problems.
Year 4 maths
Equivalent fractions and hundredths
A parent’s guide to Year 4 fractions: equivalent fractions, hundredths, finding fractions of amounts and adding fractions, with a worked example and common mistakes.
Year 4 maths
Coordinates and translations
How Year 4 children read and plot coordinates in the first quadrant, describe translations left, right, up and down, and draw polygons on a grid, with a worked example.
Year 4 maths
Shapes, angles and symmetry
How Year 4 children classify triangles and quadrilaterals, compare acute and obtuse angles and find lines of symmetry, with a worked example and common mistakes.
Year 4 maths
Area, perimeter, units and time
What Year 4 children learn about converting units, perimeter, area by counting squares, money and 12- and 24-hour clocks, with a worked example and ideas for home.
Year 4 maths
Times tables to 12 × 12
What Year 4 children learn about times tables and short multiplication, how the Multiplication Tables Check works, common mistakes and easy ways to practise at home.
Year 4 maths
Rounding and Roman numerals
How Year 4 children round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000, estimate with number lines and read Roman numerals to 100, with a worked example and common mistakes.
Year 4 maths
Thousands and negative numbers
How Year 4 children learn four-digit place value, compare numbers beyond 1,000, count in 6s, 7s, 9s, 25s and 1,000s, and count back through zero into negative numbers.
Year 4 maths
Bar charts and time graphs
How Year 4 children read, draw and compare data in bar charts, pictograms, tables and time graphs, with a worked example, common mistakes and easy ideas to try at home.
Everything in the Year 4 maths curriculum
The National Curriculum topics for Year 4, in the order the National Curriculum lists them.