What your child actually learns this year

Place value up to tens of thousands, reading and writing numbers in words, rounding to the nearest ten and hundred, and putting numbers in order.

Adding up to four digits with regrouping, and estimating the answer by rounding before working it out.

Taking away up to four digits with regrouping, and checking the answer by adding it back.

Two digits by two digits, multiplying by 10 and 100, and the patterns that make some of it quick.

Dividing by a single digit with and without a remainder, and seeing that division undoes multiplication.

Equivalent fractions, comparing and ordering them, and adding and subtracting ones that share a denominator. The topic worth doing twice.

Tenths and hundredths, where the point sits, and how a decimal and a fraction can be the same amount written two ways.

A letter standing in for a number that is not known yet. The first step towards algebra, and gentler than it sounds.

The metre and the centimetre, measuring and estimating, and adding and subtracting lengths.

The square centimetre arrives, and the area of a rectangle and a square worked out rather than guessed.

The cubic centimetre, and what it means for a solid shape to take up space.

The litre, measuring it with real containers, and adding and subtracting amounts.

The kilogramme, reading a scale, and comparing what things weigh.

Reading an analogue and a digital clock, the twenty-four hour clock, and working out how long something took.

Shopping, change, profit and loss, and keeping a simple record of what was spent.

Describing where something is, and using the compass directions to say how to get there.

What a turn is, naming right, acute and obtuse angles, and finding them in the room.

Naming and describing flat shapes, and what makes a square different from a rectangle.

Tally marks, tables and simple graphs, and reading an answer back out of one somebody else made.