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Checklist: Year 4 & 5 Maths Milestones
Is your child keeping up with Year 4 or Year 5 Maths?
This Maths skills summary, from experienced teachers who provide Maths tuition at Kids First Children’s Services in Sydney’s northern beaches, provides an easy guide to the kinds of Maths tasks your child should be mastering this year.
In Years 4 and 5, your child’s maths involves more than just addition and subtraction.
Your child will be using the concepts they have learned in the past as the basis for new and more complex skills.
They will be expected to have a handle on times tables, know how to use large whole numbers, write formal algorithms and confidently manage many other higher order maths skills.
The summary below details the important number and algebra skills that students in Year 4 and 5 are being taught in Australian schools.
Remember, every teacher covers these skills at different times in the year and if your child is in Year 4, there will be some maths skills here that are on the horizon, but not being consolidated in the classroom this year.
Year 4 & 5 Maths Skills: Number and Algebra
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Year 4 & 5 Maths Skills: Times tables
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Remember
Maths is one of those subjects where your child’s previous knowledge is the foundation for their future skill and success.
By the time Year 4 or 5 rolls around, your child needs to be a confident problem-solver.
Your child should also be able to see the connection between the Maths methods they’ve learnt in Years 2 and 3, and new skills they are being taught.
What to do if your child is struggling with Year 4 or Year 5 Maths
Sometimes, if there is a ‘gap’ in your child’s knowledge, the acquisition of higher order maths skills can become difficult.
- Talk to your child about what they don’t understand.
- You might need to ‘go back’ to skills that have been taught in previous years to uncover the origins of your child’s confusion.
- Talk to your child’s classroom teacher, who should always the first port-of-call
- If you feel out of your depth at Maths homework time, get professional tuition before your child’s Maths difficulties start to affect his or her confidence
Get help for your child now
Maths tuition from a qualified teacher who:
- understands the curriculum,
- is trained to identify how kids learn and
- knows how to adapt material to suit your child’s learning style
is, in our experience, much more effective than a computer program or unqualified uni student or ‘tutor’.
Kids First Children’s Services has been offering Maths Mastery tuition groups to students in Years 4 and 5 for more than a decade.
Taught face to face by our trusted and fully qualified teachers, Maths Mastery tuition groups focus on giving children in Years 3-6 the encouragement and support they need to succeed.
Because they’re taught face to face, without computers or rote learning, Maths Mastery tuition groups also give children a chance to ask questions and have complex concepts explained in a way that they understand.
If you live in Sydney’s northern beaches and need caring, professional Maths tutoring for your child, Kids First’s teachers would be happy to help
Contact Kids First on (02) 9938 5419 for more information and to arrange a free 30 minute Maths skills screening,