Following the White Rose Maths scheme, year 4 will cover four main blocks of learning over the course of the spring term: multiplication and division; length and perimeter: fractions and decimals. As part of the White Rose Maths scheme, each block is broken down into a series of small learning steps. Combined, these small learning steps then cover all the curriculum content your child needs to know in small related chunks.
This term’s small learning steps for each block
| Maths area of learning | Block | Small Learning Steps |
| Number | Multiplication and division | Factor pairs; use factor pairs; multiply by 10; multiply by 100; divide by 10; divide by 100; related facts – multiplication and division; informal written methods for multiplication; multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number; multiply a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number; divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number; divide a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number; correspondence problems and efficient multiplication. |
| Measurement | Length and perimeter | Measure in kilometres and metres; equivalent lengths; perimeter on a grid; perimeter of a rectangle; perimeter of rectilinear shapes; find missing lengths in rectilinear shapes; calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes; perimeter of regular polygons and perimeter of polygons. |
| Number | Fractions | Understanding the whole; count beyond 1; partition a mixed number; number ines with mixed numbers; compare and order mixed numbers; understand improper fractions; convert mixed numbers to improper fractions; convert improper fractions to mixed numbers; equivalent fractions on a number line; equivalent fraction families; add two or more fractions; add fractions and mixed numbers; subtract two fractions; subtract from whole amounts and subtract from mixed numbers. |
| Number | Decimals | Tenths as fractions; tenths as decimals; tenths on a place value chart; tenths on a number line; divide a 1-digit number by 10; divide a 2-digit number by 10; hundredths as fractions; hundredths on a place value chart and divide a 1- or 2-digit number by 100. |
One of the most important things for your child to have mastered and maintain is their knowledge of times tables. For an overview of our weekly times tables focus, please view our Term 3 and Term 4 Homework Grid. To complement their work in lessons reinforcing their fluency, recall and commutativity of these timetables, your child will be set a weekly activity to complete as part of their homework on Sumdog.
Our Calculation Policy: addition and subtraction
Our Calculation Policy: multiplication and division