Curriculum overview: Year 5 Maths - Autumn

Modified on Tue, 19 Aug at 9:01 AM



This article provides an outline of the test content assessed in the Year 5 Maths Autumn assessments.   


Curriculum area  

Curriculum statement  

Curriculum year  

N: Number  

4N2b – find 1,000 more or less than a given number  

4N3a – recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones)  

4N4a – identifyrepresent and estimate numbers using different representations  

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5N1 – count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000  

5N2 – read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1,000,000  

5N3a – determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 1,000,000  

5N4 – round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000  

5N5 – interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through zero  

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C: Addition and subtraction  

5C1 – add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers  

5C2 – add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)  

5C4 – solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why  

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C: Multiplication and division  

4C6a – recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12  

4C6b – use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers  

4C7 – multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout  

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5C5a – identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number and common factors of two numbers  

5C5c – establish whether a number up to 100 is prime and recall prime numbers up to 19  

5C5d – recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers, and the notation for squared (2) and cubed (3 

5C6a – multiply and divide numbers mentally drawing upon known facts  

5C6b – multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000  

5C7a – multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one or two-digit number using a formal written method, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers  

5C7b – 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  

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C: Solve problems / order of operations  

4C3 – estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation  

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5C8a – solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes  

5C8b – solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign  

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F: Fractions  

4F1 – count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by a hundred and dividing tenths by ten  

4F2 – recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions  

4F4 – add and subtract fractions with the same denominator  

4F10a – solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number  

  

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5F2a – recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one form to the other; write mathematical statements >1 as a mixed number [e.g. 2/5 + 4/5 = 6/5 = 1 1/5]  

5F3 – compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number  

5F4 – add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and denominators that are multiples of the same number  

5F5 – multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams  

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F: Decimals,

percentages 

and equivalence  

4F8 – compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places  

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5F6a – read and write decimal numbers as fractions [e.g. 0.71 = 71/100]  

5F6b – recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents  

5F7 – round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place  

5F8 – read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places  

5F10 – solve problems involving numbers up to three decimal places  

5F11 – recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’; write percentages as a fraction with denominator hundred, and as a decimal  

5F12 – solve problems that require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 2/5, 4/5 and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25  

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M: Measurement, area, perimeter, 

volume and time  

3M4f – compare durations of events, [e.g. to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks]  

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4M4b – read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 24-hour clocks 

4M4c – solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days  

4M7b – find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares  

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5M5 – convert between different units of metric measure [e.g. kilometre and metre; centimetre and metre; centimetre and millimetre; gram and kilogram; litre and millilitre]  

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M: Measurement problem solving  

5M9a – use all four operations to solve problems involving measures [money] using decimal notation, including scaling  

5M9d – use all four operations to solve problems involving measure [e.g. volume] using decimal notation, including scaling  

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G & P: Geometry, 

position and direction  

4G2a – compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles based on their properties and sizes  

4G2b – identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations  

4G2c – complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry  

4G4 – identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to two right angles by size  

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5G2a – use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles  

5G2b – distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles  

5G3b – identify 3-D shapes including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations  

5G4a – know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles  

5P2 – identifydescribe and represent the position of a shape following a refection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed  

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S: Statistics  

4S2 – solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs  

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5S1 – complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables  

5S2 – solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph  

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