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Orange level - Year 5

Whole Numbers

  • number chart 1-100
  • place values (base ten blocks)
  • place values table
  • the abacus (bridging 100, 1 000, 10 000)
  • number lines
  • expanded notation
  • expressing a number in words
  • ordering, factors, prime numbers, multiples, patterns
  • adding or subtraction (10, 100, and 1 000)
  • rounding to the nearest 10 and hundred
  • multiplication by powers of 10 and 100

Addition

  • consolidation of addition (vertical format)
  • 3 digit numbers with 2 and 3 digit numbers (with and without carries)
  • addition patterns
  • number line addition (with number sentences)
  • mental addition strategies
  • grouping
  • 3 digit numbers with 3 digit numbers (with carries)
  • 4 digit with 3 digit (with and without carries)
  • 4 digit with 4 digit (with and without carries)
  • addition of three 4 digit numbers (with carries)
  • addition and subtraction as inverse operations)
  • estimation techniques (nearest 10 and 100)
  • number sentences

Subtraction

  • consolidation of the subtraction concept
  • number patterns
  • mental subtraction (grouping)
  • subtraction to 9 999 (no regrouping)
  • vertical subtraction to 9 999 (1 regrouping)
  • vertical subtraction to 9 999 (2 regroupings)
  • subtraction with zeros
  • subtraction stories
  • subtraction and addition as inverse operations
  • estimation

Multiplication

  • consolidation of multiplication
  • factors, multiples, and products
  • multiplication by tens, hundreds, multiples
  • 2 and 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers (regrouping)
  • 3 and 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers (no regrouping and internal zero)
  • multiplication patterns and square number patterns
  • 4 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers (with and without regrouping)
  • 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers (with and without regrouping)
  • zeros in partial products
  • estimation
  • story problems

Division

  • consolidation of division
  • review of number lines, factors, terminology, and basic facts
  • strategies (multiplication-inverse/repeated subtraction)
  • 2 digit numbers divided by 1 digit numbers (with/without regrouping and remainders)
  • 3 digit numbers divided by 1 digit numbers (with/without regrouping and remainders)
  • divisibility
  • dividing by 10, 100, 1 000
  • estimation
  • story problems

Fractions

  • consolidation of the fraction concept
  • fraction symbolism: consolidation and mixed numbers
  • conceptual development of decimal fractions to hundredths
  • modelling tenths and hundredths
  • symbolic representation and place value
  • increasing and decreasing by hundredths and place value
  • exploring equivalence relationships (common and decimal fractions)
  • addition and subtraction of decimals: to hundredths
  • multiplication of decimals: units and tenths by a single digit multiplier
  • story problems and estimation: including common and decimal fractions
  • related to measures

Time and Money

  • sequencing and durations: minutes , hours, days, years, decades,etc
  • measures of time, rate and speed
  • o'clock, half past, 30 minutes past and minutes past, quarter past, a.m. and p.m.
  • minutes to and quarter to
  • time problem solving
  • calendars: ordinals to 31st, seasons, rhyme for number of days in months, etc
  • write dates using correct abbreviations
  • days and months to or since certain events
  • dollars and cents: written form and total value
  • cash transactions
  • shopping: multiple items, change given, rounding
  • operations with money and conversion of $ and cents to cents for division

Measurement

  • consolidation of the concept of mass and length
  • conservation of mass and the kilogram
  • concept of length: comparison of 2 and more objects
  • concept of length: informal units of length, the metre, length, width, height, boundary = perimeter
  • consolidation of concept of area and part units
  • consolidation of the concept of volume
  • the litre, less than, more than, millilitres
  • concept of angles: turns and corners, right angles

Space

  • identify and describe plane (2-D) shapes: inside/outside, tangrams, geometric: point, boundary, regular and irregular polygons, diagonals, table of facts
  • compare and classify plane shapes: according to three attributes, 5 sides or more - shape is labelled according to the number of sides, quadrilaterals
  • identify and describe 3-D shapes (solids): geometric: cube, sphere, cone, pyramid, side, prism, cylinder, cross-sections, pyramid construction v
  • symmetry: exploration through plane shapes, lines of symmetry, shapes and sides etc

Chance and data

  • introduction to probability: chance, possible, certain, likely, unlikely, more likely, least likely, best chance, equal chance
  • introduction to probability: 1 selection only
  • graphs: 3 and columns: organising, collecting and interpreting
  • graphs and data: line graphs, simple circle graphs, collecting data from experiments

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