🧮Oxford Mathematics Grade 4

Grade 4 maths is where the three ways of writing the same quantity — a half, 0.5, 50% — finally have to become one idea in a child's head. Most curricula teach them as three separate topics in three separate terms. This one teaches them together, in a single unit, with a conversion triangle the child fills in themselves.

Long multiplication is the other landmark. It is introduced late in the autumn term, deliberately after estimation is secure, so that a child who writes 2,400 × 30 = 720 notices the answer is wrong without being told.

What your child will be able to do

By the end of this course, a learner working at the expected pace will be able to:

• Multiply four-digit numbers by two-digit numbers using long multiplication
• Divide four-digit numbers by a single digit and interpret remainders
• Convert fluently between fractions, decimals and percentages
• Plot and translate shapes on a coordinate grid
• Calculate area and perimeter of rectangles and compound shapes

How the course is structured

Oxford Mathematics Grade 4 is organised into 6 units covering 175 lessons in total, designed to run across 36 weeks at roughly 5 hours a week. The unit outline below shows 25 representative lessons.

Number and place value

• Numbers to 1,000,000
• Rounding to any power of ten
• Negative numbers in context
• Prime, square and cube numbers

Long multiplication

• Two digits by two digits
• Three and four digits by two digits
• Estimating to check
• Multiplication word problems

Division

• Short division with four digits
• Remainders as fractions and decimals
• Divisibility rules
• Two-step problems with division

Fractions, decimals, percentages

• Equivalence and simplifying
• Adding fractions with different denominators
• Multiplying a fraction by a whole number
• Decimal place value to hundredths
• Percentages as hundredths

Geometry and position

• Coordinates in the first quadrant
• Translation and reflection
• Angle measurement with a protractor
• Properties of triangles and quadrilaterals

Measure and statistics

• Area and perimeter formulae
• Compound shapes
• Converting metric units
• Line graphs and two-way tables

How it is taught

Estimation is embedded before every formal method, not bolted on afterwards. The habit of writing an approximate answer first catches the majority of place-value slips that otherwise go unnoticed.

What is included

• 175 lessons
• Protractor and coordinate-grid printables, 170 worksheets
• 46 quizzes, six unit tests, mid- and end-of-year papers
• Parent method sheets for long multiplication and division

Who this course suits

This course sits in the Grade 4 track and follows a oxford-aligned sequence. It suits families who want a complete, sequenced mathematics year rather than a set of loose practice activities, and it assumes no teaching experience — every lesson includes a short method note for the adult. If your child is comfortably ahead or behind the intermediate level described here, use the placement check in lesson one and start at the recommended point instead of lesson one.