Year 5

When children arrive in Year 5, with the solid understanding of number and calculation, the focus can shift to fluency in these skills and building new layers of understanding. In Year 5, application and problem solving are crucial. Basic Year 4 skills, such as times tables, use of simple mental and written methods and the understanding of what makes a fraction need to be solid before Year 5 objectives can begin.

Key areas for the year are:

  • A focus on fluency in, and application of, calculation methods

  • In depth understanding of fractions and decimals

  • Interpretting data from a wide range of graphs, tables and charts

  • Applying knowledge to problem solving

Below are the expectations of the Walhampton mathematics curriculum for Year 5. These form the basis of the 'expected' attainment grade. It is expected that some children will be able to exceed these objectives and explore the topics in more depth.

Number and Place Value Skills

Children will learn to:

  • read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digits

  • read Roman numerals to 1000 (M) and recognise years written in Roman numerals

  • interpret negative numbers in context

  • round any number to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000

  • solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above.

Calculation

Children will learn to:

  • count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000

  • count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero

  • use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy

  • add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits including using formal written methods

  • add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers

  • solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in context, deciding with operations and methods to use and why

  • solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign

  • identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers

  • know and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite numbers

  • establish whether a number up to 100 is prime and recall prime numbers up to 19

  • recognise and use square number and cube numbers, and the notation for squared and cubed

  • mutiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit or two-digit number using a formal written methods, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers

  • multiply and divide numbers mentally drawing upon known facts

  • divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context

  • multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000

  • solve problems involving multiplication and division including their knowledge of factors and mulitples, squares and cubes

  • solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling bu simple fractions and problems involving simple rates.

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Children will learn to:

  • indentify, name and write equivalent fractions of a given fraction, represented visually, including tenths and hundredths

  • recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other and write mathematical statements >1 as a mixed number

  • compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number

  • add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number

  • multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams

  • read and write decimal numbers as fractions

  • recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents

  • round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place

  • read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places

  • solve problems involving numbers up to three decimal places

  • recognise the per cent symbol and understand that per cent relates to 'number of parts per hundred' and write percentages as a fraction with a denominator 100, and as a decimal

  • solve probelms which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of a half, quarter, fifth, two-fifths, four-fifths and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25.

Measurement

Children will learn to:

  • convert between different units of measure

  • understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units

  • use all four operations to solve problems involving measure using decimal notation, including scaling

  • use all four operations to solve problems involving measure (for example, money)

  • solve problems involving converting between units of time

  • measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres

  • calculate and compare the area of rectangles and including using standard units, square centimetres and square metres and estimate the area of irregular shapes

  • estimate volume and capacity

Geometry

Children will learn to:

  • distinguish between regular and irregular polyhons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles

  • use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles

  • identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations

  • know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles

  • draw given angles and measure them in degrees

  • identify:

    • angles at a point and one whole turn

    • angles at a point on a straight line and half a turn

    • other multiples of 90 degrees

  • identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed

Statistics

Children will learn to:

  • complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables

  • solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph.

To see examples of the calculation methods taught in each year group, follow this link to our calculation guidance.