Free Year 4 Maths Worksheets
Year 4 maths worksheet: time
This maths worksheet takes a closer look at the different ways that we say what the time is and is probably most suited to year 4 children.
Reading the time often proves to be a tricky subject for children and there are several reasons for this. One is that many children seldom see a clock face other than a digital display. Another reason is that we have various ways of saying the same time.
For example: 9:50 can be said as ‘nine fifty’ or ‘ten to ten’.
This worksheet asks children to write times using digits, write times in words using minutes past and minutes to the hour as well as working out times a quarter or half hour before and after the time given. These types of question are very popular in the Year 6 SAT papers so there is no harm in using this page with older children who are struggling with understanding and answer time questions.
Two step word problems
Here we have a page of word problems which require more than one step in order to answer them. Children find this kind of two step word problem question much harder than when there is just one step involved in answering a question.
Often these questions can be done in several different ways. For example, the first question;
‘Jacob had 60 toys and his sister, Emma, had 48 toys. They sold 33 of the toys at a car boot sale. How many do they have left?’
The obvious way to do this is to add 60 and 48, making 108 and then subtracting 33 to leave 75.
However, it is just as valid, and maybe easier, to subtract 33 from 48 which is 15 and then add this on to the 60, to make 75. The actual numbers involved here are easier to deal with.
It is well worth keeping an open mind on how these types of questions should be answered and discuss with your children the best ways of approaching them.
This page can be found in the Year 4 resources under the Using and Applying Maths category.
Easter maths worksheet: Co-ordinates
This is a step up from the Easter maths worksheet published earlier in the week on Position and Direction, with several differences.
Firstly the axes are numbered rather than the spaces. This is an important step as the conventions of using co-ordinates come into play. it is important to show how co-ordinates are written:
e.g. (3, 1)
Brackets are always placed around the co-ordinates, with the numbers separated by a comma. The position (3, 1) means 3 along and 1 up, which in this case takes you to the pink rabbit (and not the rabbit holding the basket of eggs).
The grid can be used for further work: e.g.
1.ask how you can move along the lines to go from one point to another (2 along and 1 up)
2. Draw more features at the points and ask where they are positioned.
3. Ask child to draw an egg at a certain point etc.
This can be found in the Year 4 Shape category.
Thanks to urbrainy.com for allowing me to use it.
Subtraction of 3-digit numbers
Here is a maths worksheet that concentrates on practising subtraction of 3-digit numbers, using the standard, or efficient, written method.
There are several things to look out for when subtracting, including:
a. where each of the three digits on the bottom line are smaller than the 3 digits above them e.g.
987
654
This is the easiest type of question as there is no ‘borrowing’ or ‘adjusting.
b. Where the units are larger on the bottom line e.g.
456
327
Here an adjustment of ten has to be made from the tens column to the units column to carry out the subtraction.
c. Where the tens are larger on the bottom line e.g.
746
395
here an adjustment from the hundreds to the tens has to be made.
d. Where an adjustment from the tens has to be made, but there are no tens and the adjustment has to be made from the hundreds. e.g.
703
445
This is the hardest and one which many children will make a mistake.
For further details of these go to our Four Rules/Subtraction pages.
Subtraction of 3-digit numbers
Year 4 Maths worksheet: Completing number statements
This Year 4 maths worksheet looks quite straightforward, but many children will find it tricky.
Four numbers are shown as well as four addition and subtraction statements with missing numbers. Just put in the missing numbers from the four shown.
With the addition questions the best way to proceed is to look at the units digit of the answer to the number statement. Then look at the four numbers to see which two added together will match the units digit. Check that the answer is correct by adding in a different order or subtracting one number from the answer, to leave the other number.
For the subtraction statements again it is best to look at the units digit, but remembering that an adjustment from the tens might need to be made to reach the correct numbers.
This page can be found in the Year 4 resources, under Using and Applying Maths.
Problem Solving Worksheet for Year 4
There are only 5 questions on this page but some children will find it quite difficult. The main reason for this is that they will have to work back from the answer to find the starting number. This will often mean reversing the operations, subtracting where it says add, halving where it says double etc.
This is a god test of children’s knowledge of the relationships between addition and subtraction, doubling and halving and multiplication and division.
Two of the harder questions come at the end, because they involve carrying out two processes to reach the answer. For example:
‘I am a 2-digit number. My digits total 10 and have a difference of 2. Who am I?’
This involves finding 2 digits which have a total of 10 (2 and 8, 3 and 7 etc) and then checking that the difference between the two digits is 2.
6 and 4 will solve the problem so there are two possible answers: 46 or 64.
Year 4 maths worksheet on ordering decimal fractions
One of the most important concepts in maths is to understand that the value of a digit depends on its place in the number – otherwise we could only possibly have 9 numbers and zero! So the digit 2 in 120 has a different value than the 2 in 210. The 2 in 120 has a value of 20, whilst the 2 in 210 has a value of 200.
By Year 4 children should be applying this idea to decimals. The first column to the right of the decimal point is tenths so the 1 in 2.1 has a value of one tenth and the 1 in 2.01 has a value of one hundredth. This is best shown with money: one penny is £0.01, or one hundredth, whilst 10p is £0.10 or one tenth of a pound. (It is also important that we always put two digits after the decimal when using money, but not necessarilyat other times.)
This maths worksheets looks at both place value and ordering simple decimal fractions, using the concepts above.
Year 4 maths worksheet: Santa’s reindeer
More Christmas worksheets are available at:http://pages.urbrainy.com/happy-christmas-2011
We continue with our seasonal worksheets with some reindeer questions, probably best suited to children in Year 4 upwards.
Everyone knows about Rudolf, the red-nosed reindeer, but far fewer people know that there are eight others to go with him!
Santa’s reindeer pull the sleigh for Santa and help him deliver the presents. The nine names are based on a poem written in 1823 called, ‘A visit from St. Nicholas’, by Clement Moore which named eight reindeer:
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Comet
Cupid
Donner (originally Dunder)
Blitzen (originally Blixem)
in a little known verse:
‘More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and call’d them by name:
“Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer, and Vixen!
“On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen!’
The popularity of the song, ‘Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer led to Rudolf being added to this list, making nine in total!
This page can be found in the year 4 Using and Applying Maths category.
More Christmas worksheets are available at:
http://pages.urbrainy.com/happy-christmas-2011
Year 4 mental arithmetic: multiplying by 4
Knowing the 4 times table is very important but using it is not always the most efficient way of finding an answer when using just mental methods. here we have a worksheet for year 4 children which looks at an alternative approach when multiplying by 4. This uses knowledge of the 2 times table to double and double again.
With some numbers this could be a better way. For example;
150 x4 can be done easily by doubling 150 to get 300 and then doubling 300 to get 600 – all done ‘in your head’ in less than a second!
Why not try this worksheet, to be found in the Year 4 calculating category.
Year 4 maths worksheet: multiplying by 5
By the end of year 4 children should be developing a wide range of strategies for working answers out ‘in their heads’. To be successful they do need plenty of practice with these strategies. One such technique is to be able to efficiently multiply 2-digit numbers by 5. Sometimes the best way to do this is to take the tens digit and multiply by 5 then do the same with the units. On other occasions it is easier to multiply the whole number by ten and then halve the answer; or, if the number is even, halve the number and multiply by ten.
This worksheet looks more closely at this .it is not always the best option, but it is ceertainly one that children should be confident with using.
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