Following the White Rose Maths scheme, year 5 will cover four main blocks of learning over the course of the autumn term: place value; addition and subtraction; multiplication and division; and fractions. As part of the White Rose Maths scheme, each block is broken down into a series of small learning steps. Combined, these small learning steps then cover all the curriculum content your child needs to know in small, related chunks.
This term’s small learning steps for each block
| Maths area of learning | Block | Small Learning Steps |
| Number | Place Value | Roman numerals to 1,000; numbers to 10,000; numbers to 100,000; numbers to 1,000,000; read and write numbers to 1,000,000; powers of 10; 10/100/1,000/10,000/100,000 more or less; partition numbers to 1,000,000; number line to 1,000,000; compare and order numbers to 1,000,000; round to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000; round within 100,000 and round within 1,000,000 |
| Number | Addition and subtraction | Mental strategies; add whole numbers with more than four digits; subtract whole numbers with more than four digits; round to check answers; inverse operations (addition and subtraction; multi-step addition and subtraction problems; compare calculations and find missing numbers |
| Number | Multiplication and Division A | Multiples; common multiples; factors; common factors; prime numbers; square numbers; cube numbers; multiply by 10,100 and 1000; divide by 10, 100 and 1,000 and multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 |
| Number | Fractions A | Find fractions equivalent to a unit fraction; find fractions equivalent to a non-unit fraction; recognise equivalent fractions; convert improper fractions to mixed numbers; convert mixed numbers to improper fractions; compare fractions less than 1; order fractions less than 1; compare and order fractions greater than 1; add and subtract fractions with the same denominator; add fractions within 1; add fractions with total greater than 1; add to a mixed number; add two mixed numbers; subtract fractions; subtract from a mixed number; subtract from a mixed number – breaking the whole and subtract two mixed numbers. |
One of the most important things for your child to have mastered and maintain is their knowledge of times tables. For an overview of our weekly times tables focus, please view our Term 1 and Term 2 Homework Grid. To complement their work in lessons reinforcing their fluency, recall and commutativity of these timetables, your child will be set a weekly activity to complete as part of their homework on Sumdog.
Our Calculation Policy: addition and subtraction
Our Calculation Policy: multiplication and division