Maths
Over the first 7 weeks, Year 5 will be building on their mathematical knowledge and developing the skills they will need throughout the year. We will be following the White Rose Maths scheme, with a focus on understanding, explaining and applying mathematical ideas.
Our lessons will encourage children to be curious mathematicians who can explore, investigate, reason and solve problems.
Place Value
Children will develop their understanding of numbers up to 1,000,000. They will begin by learning about Roman numerals to 1,000 before extending their knowledge of numbers to 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000. Children will practise reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000 and explore the importance of the powers of 10 in understanding place value. They will learn to identify and partition numbers into their place value parts and use number lines to represent and locate numbers up to 1,000,000. Children will also develop their ability to find 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 more or less than a given number, as well as compare and order numbers to 100,000 and 1,000,000. Towards the end of the unit, they will develop their understanding of rounding, rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000, and then applying these skills to numbers within 100,000 and 1,000,000.
Addition & Subtraction
Children will develop their confidence with mental calculation strategies and learn to add and subtract whole numbers with more than four digits. They will use rounding to estimate and check whether their answers are reasonable, and explore inverse operations to check and solve addition and subtraction calculations. Children will apply their skills to multi-step problems, learning to identify the operations needed and work systematically to find solutions. They will also compare different calculations, explain their reasoning and identify missing numbers in calculations, developing their accuracy, fluency and ability to solve problems efficiently.
Multiplication & Division