Year 5 Maths Expectations

By the end of Year 5, your child should:

• Interpret negative numbers in context
• Read Roman numerals to 1000, including years
• Recognise and use square and cube numbers, and know the notation
• Use rounding to check answers and determine accuracy
• Identify multiples and factors, including finding factor pairs and common factors
• Use vocabulary: prime numbers, prime factors and composite numbers
• Know prime numbers up to 19
• Multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 or 1000, including decimals
• Use long multiplication for multiplying numbers of up to 4 digits by one or two digits
• Divide numbers using standard written short division
• Convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions
• Compare and order fractions whose denominators are multiples of the same number
• Identify, name and write equivalent fractions including tenths and hundredths
• Add and subtract fractions with denominators that are multiples of the same number
• Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers with support
• Read and write decimal numbers as fractions
• Round decimals with 2 decimals places to whole number or to one decimal place
• Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to 3 decimal places
• Recognise % symbol and explain as a fraction with denominator 100 (parts out of 100)
• Understand and use common approximate conversions between metric and imperial
• Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes
• Calculate the area of rectangles, and estimate the area of irregular shapes
• Use the properties of rectangles to find missing lengths and angles
• Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons
• Identify 3-d shapes from 2-d representations
• Know angles are measured in degrees and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles
• Draw and measure angles to the nearest degree
• Identify angles at a point, in a turn and on a straight line
• Describe and represent the result of a reflection or translation
• Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables