Turning clockwise and anticlockwise will be revisited in Year 4, as will classifying angles into acute, obtuse and right angles.

Children will be expected to know the names of, and recognise, some quite tricky 3D shapes. These include prisms, cuboids, cylinders and pyramids. As well as this, the term prism can be used for a variety of shapes, including triangular prism, hexagonal prism and octagonal prism. Unlike basic shapes these are not terms that are really used in everyday life. If children are to become familiar with them they will need a lot of practice naming the shapes and recognising their properties.

Triangles form a major part of the work in Year 4, with the terms scalene, isosceles and equilateral introduced. Right angled triangles will also be looked at.

Again, the language of 2D shape is quite tricky, with 4 sided shapes such as a trapezium, a rhombus and a parallelogram being introduced. Children will also consider polygons and whether they are regular or irregular.

Understanding of symmetry is also extended to include any line of symmetry in any direction.