4. In a classroom 17 children chose their favourite colours. 6 chose red, 4 chose blue, the rest chose green. Show this information in a pictogram.
This is almost identical in format to a question I was using the other week with a group of children who are working just within L2 but are considered by their teacher to be able to do quite a bit better. I don't think it would be considered particularly challenging. The question I used was supplied by the teacher but used much more difficult (no easy adding up to 10) and much larger numbers so many of the children struggled with it. It took them some time and a lot of help to complete, but these are children who are not at all secure at L2. A high L2 child would probably be able to tackle it much more easily. I reckon DD, who is working within L3, would easily be able to work the answer out in a few seconds. Drawing the diagram would obviously take a bit longer.
Tom buys 3 books costing 50 pence each. How much change does he get from £5?
This is almost identical to another word problem from the same set that the teacher gave me, only the one I had required children to add up several lots of 25p and subtract from a number that wasn't quite as neat, so again probably suitable for a child who is confident working at L2.
Don't know if that helps at all! I'm not a teacher but I help a lot with Maths at my daughter's school.
I'm astonished at the idea that these might be questions suitable for a child working at L4. As I said, I am not a teacher, but surely they'd have moved onto some considerably harder things by then?
FWIW, I have found that DD is not getting a lot of challenge in Maths, either. But we do investigations etc at home. Could you give her some slightly more open-ended problems to think about rather than neat sums? That would probably be of more benefit to her in the long run, rather than this kind of thing, IMHO, if you think she is good at Maths.