Proably exceeds UK school curriculum for Year 4I bought this book for my 8yo daughters who are now in year 4. They have been doing KUMON books since age of 4.This book starts with compact column addition, then proceeds with times table multiplication (US version up to 10, rather then UK up to 12), then moves on to column method of multiplications. First 2 or 3 or 4 digit numbers multiplied by a single digit number, then 2-3 digit number by 2 digit number. The top, I think, is 4 digit by 3 digit.First, you need to make sure you child did Addition and Subtraction Grade 3 — without sound knowledge of column method of addition they won’t be able to do more complicated multiplication.From my experience multiplication by single-digit is easy, as it is very similar to addition. The only obvious requirement is for children to remember multiplication tables. Multiplication by 2 digit number required some explanation and efforts (as well as special cases of 0s in multiplier). But after couple of pages both girls become confident.The only reservation may be that this ‘Grade 4’ is well beyond of Year 4 requirements (at least in school my daughters attend), so it might be too complicated for some children. Also, it is probably better to introduce this book in 2nd or 3rd term.
