Curriculum Objectives

• Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days
• Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000
• Determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 10 000 000
• Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
• Use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero
• Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy
• Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers
• Multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication
• Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit number using the formal written method of short division where appropriate, interpreting remainders according to the context
• Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the four operations
• Use common factors to simplify fractions; use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination
• Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers, using the concept of equivalent fractions
• Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in its simplest form [for example, 1/4 × 1/2 = 1/8]
• Multiply one-digit numbers with up to two-decimal places by whole numbers
• Find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with two unknowns
• Use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to three decimal places
• Convert between miles and kilometres

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