Year 5 Maths Curriculum Topics

Year 5 maths – Your child needs to know:

Number and place value

• Reading, writing, ordering and comparing numbers to at least 1,000,000
• Counting forwards and backwards with positive and negative numbers
• Rounding any number up to one million to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000

Calculating

• Adding and subtracting with numbers up to four digits using column addition and subtraction
• Identifying factors and multiples of different numbers
• Identifying prime numbers
• Multiplying four-digit numbers with two-digit numbers using long multiplication
• Dividing four-digit numbers by one-digit numbers using short division
• Multiplying whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
• Recognising and using square numbers and cube numbers
• Solving problems involving all four operations

Fractions, decimals and percentages

• Comparing and ordering fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number
• Converting from mixed numbers to improper fractions
• Adding and subtracting fractions whose denominators are multiples of the same number
• Multiplying proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers
• Rounding decimals with two places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
• Comparing numbers with up to three decimal places
• Beginning to understand percentages
• Knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 2/5 and 4/5

Measuring

• Converting between units of measurement
• Working out the perimeter and area of shapes (including irregular shapes)
• Solving problems involving money and measures
• Solving problems involving converting between units of time

Geometry

• Drawing and measuring angles
• Finding angles around a point, on a straight line and within a right angle

Statistics

• Solving comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph
• Completing and interpreting information in tables, including timetables