Year 5 (Grade 4) Maths Mid-Term Test: Place Value, Rounding, Triangles & Symmetry

This free Year 5 (Grade 4) maths mid-term test has 22 questions worth 60 marks and takes 50 minutes. It covers place value, rounding decimals, triangles and symmetry for children aged 9 to 10. Print it, hand out pencils and rulers, and no calculators are needed.

About This Maths Test

This is a 50-minute mid-term paper for Year 5 (Grade 4). It checks four topics in one sitting. Section A covers place value (19 marks), Section B covers rounding decimal numbers (16 marks), Section C covers triangles (11 marks) and Section D covers symmetry (14 marks).

Questions go from short recall, such as writing numbers in digits or words, to reasoning, such as explaining a mistake or finding the smallest and largest numbers that round to 8. The last question in the symmetry section is a challenge for children who finish early.

The test is written for a general English-speaking audience. “Year 5” is used in England and many other countries and “Grade 4” in the United States, and children are about 9 to 10 in both. It is not tied to any school or exam board.

Skills Your Child Practises

• Reading and writing numbers with thousands, tenths and hundredths, in digits and in words
• Finding the value of a digit in a number
• Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100, and spotting common mistakes
• Rounding decimals to the nearest whole number, centimetre or metre
• Reading a number on a number line and rounding it
• Sorting numbers into groups by how they round
• Naming equilateral, isosceles and scalene triangles
• Telling acute, obtuse and right angles apart
• Drawing a triangle with a ruler
• Counting lines of symmetry and completing symmetrical patterns

How to Use This Test

For teachers

• Use it as a mid-term check once place value, rounding, triangles and symmetry have been taught.
• Give each child a pencil and a ruler. Do not allow calculators.
• Set a 50-minute limit. Tell children each section’s marks so they can plan their time.
• Use the section totals (19, 16, 11, 14) to see which topic needs reteaching.

For homeschool parents

• Choose a quiet time and let your child work alone for up to 50 minutes.
• Mark it together afterwards. Ask your child to explain their working on the “explain” questions (Q6 and Q7).
• If one section scores low, spend a few days on that topic and retry only those questions.
• You can also split the test across two days, doing Sections A and B first, then C and D.

What’s Next?

Ready for the next level? Try the Year 6 (Grade 5) Maths Mid-Term Test. More Year 5 (Grade 4) tests are on the way. Answer Key

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