Year 4 Fractions Programme of Study Fractions and decimals have been separated in the new Programme of Study and there’s lots of it! Here are the new statutory requirements: Fractions (including decimals) Pupils should be taught to: •    recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions. •    count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by a hundred and dividing tenths by ten. •    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. •    add and subtract fractions with the same denominator. •    recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths. •    recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4 ;  1/2;  3/4 •    find the effect of dividing a one-digit or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as units, tenths and hundredths. •    round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number. •    compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places. •    solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places. What’s new and comments There is a much greater emphasis on fractions and decimals in the new Programme of Study, including writing decimal equivalents of simple fractions such as 3/4. Children will be taught that decimals and fractions are two different ways of showing the same number or amount. A key part of this is to connect hundredths to tenths; in other words, to recognise that one hundredth of a number is ten times less than one tenth of a number. Counting up and down in hundredths is a new target as well as dividing tens by ten to make hundredths. We have a good selection of decimal and fraction worksheets which will really help achieve the targets for the Year 4 Fractions Programme of Study. Go to Year 4 Fractions and Decimals.