Primary Maths

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🎉 By the end of Year 4, students are maths adventurers!

They crack the code of place value to handle tenths and hundredths (yes, decimals!), and they’ve got the power to multiply numbers by 10, 100 and beyond. With their problem-solving skills, they can tackle real-life missions like shopping budgets, birthday party planning, or sharing snacks—writing clever number sentences, finding smart strategies, and double-checking that their answers actually make sense.

Their toolbelt is packed with super-speed addition and multiplication facts, so adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing is smooth and quick. They can spot odd and even numbers at a glance, make friends between fractions and decimals, and even plot fractions on a number line. Need to find the missing number in a tricky equation? No problem. They can even invent algorithms that generate patterns—like little math wizards discovering secret number spells. 🧙‍♂️✨

When it comes to measuring, they’re like detectives with instruments—weighing, measuring, comparing, and converting everything from mass and length to time and temperature. They can figure out perimeters and areas, tell angles apart like “that’s smaller than a right angle!” and even hunt for symmetry in shapes and nature.

In the world of data, they turn into statistical storytellers: collecting info, making neat displays, and asking “Does this graph really show what we need?” They explore chance like mini scientists, running fun experiments (think coin flips, dice rolls, or spinner games) and discovering why results don’t always come out the same.

By Year 4’s end, students are not just doing maths—they’re living it: spotting patterns, solving puzzles, and exploring the maths hidden in everyday life. 🚀🔢

🎯 By the end of Year 5, here’s what our little math adventurers can do:

✨ They’ve mastered decimal magic – writing and ordering decimals (even those sneaky ones bigger than 1!).

🧩 They can break numbers apart into factors, hunt down multiples, and shuffle fractions like puzzle pieces — adding, subtracting, and even connecting them to percentages and decimals.

💰 Money problems? No sweat! They can model real-world situations, calculate costs, and double-check with smart estimation to make sure no one’s getting ripped off.

🧮 Big numbers don’t scare them — they can multiply with one- and two-digit numbers, divide with ease, and crack equations with missing pieces using multiplication and division powers.

🔢 Algorithms? Yep, they can create them — spotting and explaining patterns in numbers like true codebreakers.

📏 Measurement turns into detective work: choosing the right units to measure length, mass, and capacity, solving perimeter and area mysteries, and flipping between 12-hour and 24-hour time like time-travelers.

📐 Angles? They can estimate, construct, and measure them in degrees — geometry warriors in action.

🗺️ With coordinates, nets, and transformations, they’re map-readers, shape-flippers, and symmetry-spotters.

📊 Data becomes their playground — they plan investigations, collect data using digital tools, find the mode, read line graphs, and describe the shape of distributions like mini data scientists.

🎲 And when it comes to chance, they run experiments, list outcomes, compare likelihoods, and figure out what’s fair (and what’s not!) like budding probability pros.

👉 In short: By the end of Year 5, students aren’t just “doing maths.” They’re problem-solving detectives, time-travelers, data scientists, and number ninjas — ready to tackle the real world with their mathematical superpowers.