KS2 Maths Assessment

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• Year 3 - count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
• Year 3 - count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
• Year 3 - recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (hundreds, tens, ones)
• Year 3 - compare and order numbers up to 1000
• Year 3 - identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
• Year 3 - read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in words
• Year 3 - solve number problems and practical problems involving these ideas
• Year 3 - add and subtract numbers mentally, including a three-digit number and ones; a three-digit number and tens; a three-digit number and hundreds
• Year 3 - add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
• Year 3 - estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers
• Year 3 - solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction
• Year 3 - recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables
• Year 3 - write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods
• Year 3 - solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects.
• Year 3 - count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10
• Year 3 - recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
• Year 3 - recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
• Year 3 - recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
• Year 3 - add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole
• Year 3 - compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators
• Year 3 - solve problems that involve all of the above
• Year 3 - measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm)
• Year 3 - measure, compare, add and subtract: mass (kg/g)
• Year 3 - measure, compare, add and subtract: volume/capacity (l/ml)
• Year 3 - measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes
• Year 3 - add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts
• Year 3 - tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks
• Year 3 - estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight
• Year 3 - know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year
• Year 3 - compare durations of events
• Year 3 - draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials; recognise 3-D shapes in different orientations and describe them
• Year 3 - recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of a turn
• Year 3 - identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle
• Year 3 - identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines
• Year 3 - interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables
• Year 3 - solve one-step and two-step questions using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables
• Year 4 - count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000
• Year 4 - find 1000 more or less than a given number
• Year 4 - count backwards through zero to include negative numbers
• Year 4 - recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones)
• Year 4 - order and compare numbers beyond 1000
• Year 4 - identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
• Year 4 - round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000
• Year 4 - solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers
• Year 4 - read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of zero and place value
• Year 4 - add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate
• Year 4 - estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation
• Year 4 - solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
• Year 4 - recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
• Year 4 - use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers
• Year 4 - recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
• Year 4 - multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout
• Year 4 - solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects
• Year 4 - recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions
• Year 4 - count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten
• Year 4 - solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number
• Year 4 - add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
• Year 4 - recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths
• Year 4 - recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4
• Year 4 - find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths
• Year 4 - round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number
• Year 4 - compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places
• Year 4 - solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places
• Year 4 - Convert between different units of measure
• Year 4 - measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres
• Year 4 - find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares
• Year 4 - estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence
• Year 4 - read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks
• Year 4 - solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days
• Year 4 - compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes
• Year 4 - identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size
• Year 4 - identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations
• Year 4 - complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry
• Year 4 - describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant
• Year 4 - describe movements between positions as translations of a given unit to the left/right and up/down
• Year 4 - plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon
• Year 4 - interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs
• Year 4 - solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs
• Year 5 - read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
• Year 5 - count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1 000 000
• Year 5 - interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero
• Year 5 - round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000
• Year 5 - solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above
• Year 5 - read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals
• Year 5 - add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)
• Year 5 - add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers
• Year 5 - use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy
• Year 5 - solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
• Year 5 - identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers
• Year 5 - know and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers
• Year 5 - establish whether a number up to 100 is prime and recall prime numbers up to 19
• Year 5 - multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one- or two-digit number using a formal written method, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers
• Year 5 - multiply and divide numbers mentally drawing upon known facts
• Year 5 - divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context
• Year 5 - multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
• Year 5 - compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
• Year 5 - identify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths
• Year 5 - recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other and write mathematical statements > 1 as a mixed number
• Year 5 - add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number
• Year 5 - multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams
• Year 5 - read and write decimal numbers as fractions
• Year 5 - recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents
• Year 5 - round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
• Year 5 - read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places
• Year 5 - solve problems involving number up to three decimal places
• Year 5 - recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal
• Year 5 - solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 2/5, 4/5 and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25
• Year 5 - convert between different units of metric measure (for example, kilometre and metre; centimetre and metre; centimetre and millimetre; gram and kilogram; litre and millilitre)
• Year 5 - understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints
• Year 5 - measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres
• Year 5 - calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), and including using standard units, square centimetres (cm²) and square metres (m2) and estimate the area of irregular shapes
• Year 5 - estimate volume and capacity
• Year 5 - solve problems involving converting between units of time
• Year 5 - use all four operations to solve problems involving measure using decimal notation, including scaling
• Year 5 - identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations
• Year 5 - know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles
• Year 5 - draw given angles, and measure them in degrees (°)
• Year 5 - identify angles at a point and one whole turn (total 360°)
• Year 5 - identify angles at a point on a straight line and 1/2 a turn (total 180°)
• Year 5 - identify other multiples of 90°
• Year 5 - use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles
• Year 5 - distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles
• Year 5 - identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed
• Year 5 - solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph
• Year 5 - complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables
• Year 5 - recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers, and the notation for squared (²) and cubed (³)
• Year 5 - solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes
• Year 5 - solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign
• Year 5 - solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling by simple fractions and problems involving simple rates
• Year 6 - read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
• Year 6 - round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
• Year 6 - use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero
• Year 6 - solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above
• Year 6 - multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication
• Year 6 - divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long division, and interpret remainders as whole number remainders, fractions, or by rounding, as appropriate for the context
• Year 6 - 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
• Year 6 - perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers
• Year 6 - identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers
• Year 6 - use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the four operations
• Year 6 - solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
• Year 6 - solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Year 6 - use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy
• Year 6 - use common factors to simplify fractions; use common multiples to express fractions in the same denomination
• Year 6 - compare and order fractions, including fractions > 1
• Year 6 - add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers, using the concept of equivalent fractions
• Year 6 - multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in its simplest form
• Year 6 - divide proper fractions by whole numbers
• Year 6 - associate a fraction with division and calculate decimal fraction equivalents for a simple fraction
• Year 6 - identify the value of each digit in numbers given to three decimal places and multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 giving answers up to three decimal places
• Year 6 - multiply one-digit numbers with up to two decimal places by whole numbers
• Year 6 - use written division methods in cases where the answer has up to two decimal places
• Year 6 - solve problems which require answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy
• Year 6 - recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts
• Year 6 - solve problems involving the relative sizes of two quantities where missing values can be found by using integer multiplication and division facts
• Year 6 - solve problems involving the calculation of percentages and the use of percentages for comparison
• Year 6 - solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found
• Year 6 - solve problems involving unequal sharing and grouping using knowledge of fractions and multiples
• Year 6 - use simple formulae
• Year 6 - generate and describe linear number sequences
• Year 6 - express missing number problems algebraically
• Year 6 - find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with two unknowns
• Year 6 - enumerate possibilities of combinations of two variables
• Year 6 - solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to three decimal places where appropriate
• Year 6 - 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
• Year 6 - convert between miles and kilometres
• Year 6 - recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa
• Year 6 - recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes
• Year 6 - calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles
• Year 6 - calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm³) and cubic metres (m³), and extending to other units
• Year 6 - draw 2-D shapes using given dimensions and angles
• Year 6 - recognise, describe and build simple 3-D shapes, including making nets
• Year 6 - compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons
• Year 6 - illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius
• Year 6 - recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles
• Year 6 - describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all four quadrants)
• Year 6 - draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes
• Year 6 - interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems
• Year 6 - calculate and interpret the mean as an average