Year 5 Mathematics

Key Performance Indicators

• Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit
• Interpret negative numbers in context
• Count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers including through zero
• Add whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition)
• Subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar subtraction)
• Add or subtract mentally with increasingly large numbers
• Identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors, multiples, squares
• and cubes
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division, including scaling by simple fractions and problems involving simple rates
• Compare and order fractions whose denominations are all multiples of the same number
• Read and write decimal numbers as fractions
• Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to 3 decimal places
• Solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of ½, ¼, 1/5, 2/5 and 4/5 and those with a denominator of 10 or 25
• Convert between different units of metric measure
• Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes
• Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares) and including standard units, estimate the area of irregular shapes
• Draw given angles and measure them in degrees
• Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about sides and angles
• Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables

Other Performance Indicators

• Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000
• 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
• 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
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator or denominators that are multiples of the same number
• Multiply proper fractions and mixed number by whole numbers, supported by material and diagrams
• Round decimals with decimals to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
• Recognise the percent symbol and understand that % relates to number of parts per 100 and write percentages as a
• fraction with denominator of 100 and as a decimal
• Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure (for example, length, mass, volume and money) using decimal notation and scaling