Mathematics

Form 5 will extend their understanding of a variety of concepts and will be introduced to new Mathematical knowledge and skills. 

Below are the Cambridge Primary learning objectives we will be working towards for the initial topic.

Learning objectives 

Autumn 1

• Revising Numbers and Place Value

- Know what each digit represents in whole numbers up to a million
- Know what each digit represents in one- and two-place decimal numbers
- Round whole numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000
- Order and compare positive numbers to one million, negative numbers to an appropriate level
- Use the>, <and = signs correctly
- Estimate where four-digit numbers lie on an empty 0-10000 number line
- Recognise the historical origins of our number system and begin to understand how it developed
- Find the difference between the positive and negative integer, and between two negative integers in a context such as temperature or on the number line

• Time

Recognise and understand the units for measuring time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades and centuries); convert one unit of time to another

Tell the time using digital and analogue clocks using the 24-hour clock

Compare times on digital and analogue clocks, e.g. realise quarter to four is later than 3:40

Use a calendar to calculate time intervals in days, weeks or months

Calculate time intervals in days, months or years

Appreciate how time is different in different time zones around the world

• 3D Shapes

Visualise and describe the properties of 3D shapes, e.g. faces, edges and vertices

Recognise and make 2D representations of 3D shapes including nets.

• Addition and Subtraction

Recall addition/subtraction facts for numbers to 20 and pairs of one-place decimals with a total of 1, e.g. 0.4 and 0.6

Add/subtract a near multiple of 10, 100 or 1000, or a near whole unit of money, and adjust, e.g. 3127 + 4998, 5678 – 1996

Add two and three-digit numbers with the same or different numbers of digits/decimal places

• Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers

Multiply and divide any whole number from 1 to 10 000 by 10, 100 or 1000 and explain the effect

Know and apply tests of divisibility by 2, 4, 5, 10, 25 and 100

Use number facts to generate new multiplication facts, e.g. the 17× table from the 10× and 7× tables

Multiply two-, three- and four-digit numbers (including sums of money) by a single-digit number and two- or three-digit numbers by two-digit numbers

Divide three-digit numbers by single-digit numbers, including those leaving a remainder, and divide three-digit numbers by two-digit numbers (no remainder) including sums of money

• Measurement

Select and use standard units of measure. Read and write to two or three decimal places

Convert between units of measurement (kg and g, l and ml,m, cm and mm) using decimals to three decimal places, e.g. recognising that 1.245 m is 1 m 24.5 cm

Interpret readings on different scales on a range of measuring instruments

Draw and measure lines to the nearest centimetre and millimetre

Know imperial units still in common use, e.g. the mile, and approximate metric equivalents

Autumn 2

• Fractions

Compare fractions with the same denominator and related 

denominators, e.g.3–

4 with 7– 

8

Recognise equivalence between fractions, e.g. between –1– 

100s, 

1 – 

10s and 1–

2s

Order mixed numbers and place them between whole 

numbers on a number line

Change an improper fraction to a mixed number

Reduce fractions to their simplest form, where this is 1–

2, 1–

4,

3–

4 or a number of fi fths or tenths

• Extending decimals to thousandths

Round a number with two decimal places to the nearest tenth or to the nearest whole number

Order numbers with up to two decimal places, including different numbers of decimal places

• Tables and Graphs

Solve a problem by representing, extracting and interpreting data in tables, graphs, charts and diagrams, e.g. line graphs for distance and time; a price ‘ready reckoner’ for currency conversion; frequency tables and bar charts with grouped discrete data

Explore how statistics are used in everyday life