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TheSchoolRun.com closure date

As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.

As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.

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You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.

We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Year 4 maths: what your child learns

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Want to know what subjects will be the focus in maths lessons in Year 4? Find a detailed breakdown here.

As with reading and writing, by Year 4 most children have a good grasp of the basic maths skills and their mental maths recall is becoming more automatic. It’s important by now that the children have a good knowledge of their times tables up to ten.

The children will be starting to develop their own ideas of how to solve maths problems, and how to check that their calculations are correct.

Calculators may be introduced in this year, and your teacher will show the children how to use them correctly. Maths is still taught daily through a mix of oral, practical and written work, and the children are given plenty of opportunities to see how maths links to other areas of the curriculum, and real-life situations.

Year 4 maths – what your child will learn:

Number and place value

  • Counting in steps of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000
  • Recognising place value of each digit in a four-digit number
  • Counting backwards through zero to include negative numbers
  • Rounding any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

Calculating

Fractions and decimals

  • Finding fractions of quantities (for example: 2/6 of 48)
  • Understanding equivalence between fractions and decimals
  • Dividing one-digit and two-digit numbers by 10 and 100
  • Rounding decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number

Measuring

Geometry

Statistics

  • Interpreting and presenting data in bar charts and line graphs
  • Solving comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms and tables

Try this at home

  • Keep on with the times tables – automatic recall really does help at school and with homework. Practise in the car or on the way to school, set your child a challenge, play times tables games and, if necessary, offer a small reward as motivation
  • If your child has weekly pocket money, encourage them to save and work out how much they will have after two, three or four weeks
  • Go on a walk and give your child a compass so they can keep track of your direction

Fractions, decimals, basic geometry... maths becomes more challenging in Year 4. Help your child build on what they're learning at school and check that they understand the foundations of the new things they're learning with Year 4 maths worksheets (you can also search for fractions worksheets and decimals worksheets specifically or try the Y4 mental maths mini-test).

Check your Y4 child's progress in maths with our free Y4 maths Progress checks, three mini-tests for the autumn, spring and summer terms.

Explore the Year 4 English and Maths Learning Journey programmes