Year 5 Maths Curriculum

KS2 maths curriculum

Year 5 maths curriculum

Numbers to 1,000,000, long multiplication and short division, factors, primes, squares and cubes, thousandths, estimating by rounding, the per cent symbol and the area of rectangles.

What Year 5 covers

  • Reading, writing and ordering numbers to 1,000,000, and rounding to any power of ten
  • Long multiplication, and short division with remainders
  • Factors, multiples, prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers
  • Thousandths, and decimals to three places
  • The per cent symbol, and writing percentages as fractions and decimals
  • Area of rectangles, and perimeter of composite shapes
  • Line graphs, timetables and two-way tables

The Key Stage 2 tests are sat in the May of Year 6, so a Year 5 child has 1 more school year before the papers. Everything here is groundwork the later years lean on.

The 12 lessons that cover it

12 lessons, 71 units and 1,108 practice questions. Numbers are positions in the course teaching order, so they jump within a year. Every lesson is a link.

Where this year sits

The whole of KS2, Year 3 up to the papers in Year 6.

Year 5 is 12 of the 64 lessons in the course

Buy the whole KS2 course once and you get every year, in teaching order, on one page. Or buy this year's lessons one at a time above.

See the course

Every lesson sits in the school year the National Curriculum first teaches it, and lessons are revisited and extended after that. Lesson numbers are positions in the teaching order, so a year's lessons are not one unbroken run.