Grade 5 Mathematics

Comprehension

• Author's purpose and viewpoint
• Compare characters and settings
• Media texts and their purpose
• Skim and scan
• Summarise texts

Conventions: Grammar

• Main and subordinate clauses
• Perfect and progressive tenses

Conventions: Spelling

• Silent letters
• Suffixes -tion, -ous and -al

Creating Texts

• Dialogue in stories
• Edit and proofread
• Persuasive writing
• Write an information report

Financial Literacy

• Money problems with all four operations

Geometry

• Classify quadrilaterals
• Classify triangles
• Measure and draw angles
• Translations and reflections

Measurement

• Area of rectangles
• Convert metric units

Number

• Add and subtract decimals
• Add and subtract large numbers
• Factors and multiples
• Fraction and decimal equivalents
• Long multiplication
• Mixed numbers and improper fractions
• Multiply fractions by whole numbers
• Multi-step addition and subtraction problems
• Round and order decimals
• Round to any power of ten

Patterns

• Simple equations

Statistics

• Line graphs
• Mode and median
• Simple probability experiments

Vocabulary

• Idioms and figurative language
• Precise word choice