Grade 5 Mathematics

Comprehending Texts

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

Creating and Communicating

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

Data and Probability

• Line graphs
• Mode and median

Financial Literacy

• Money problems with all four operations
• Simple budgets

Geometry and Measurement

• Area of rectangles
• Classify quadrilaterals
• Classify triangles
• Convert metric units
• Measure and draw angles
• Translations and reflections

Language Conventions

• Main and subordinate clauses
• Perfect and progressive tenses
• Silent letters
• Suffixes -tion, -ous and -al

Number and Computational Fluency

• Add and subtract decimals
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
• Add and subtract large numbers
• All multiplication facts
• 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

Patterning

• Simple equations

Vocabulary and Word Knowledge

• Idioms and figurative language
• Precise word choice