Grade 5 age 10–11

What your child practises here in Grade 5, with a real lesson and question from each subject.

Grade 5 math here is ratios, percentages and negative numbers. Not here yet: multiplying and dividing big numbers and decimals, area and perimeter, angles and triangles, among others. When your child has learned these, the level moves up. Use it alongside what the school sends home. See the detail

  • A short lesson first
  • Worksheets of 20 to 25 questions, in rounds of 5 or 6
  • Learned means 3 in 4 right, on two different days

Math

Ratios, percentages (including discounts), negative numbers.

From the lesson · Understanding percentages

Write 5% as a decimal.

  1. Per cent means per hundred, so 5% is 5 out of 100, or 5/100.
  2. The fraction line means divide, so work out 5 ÷ 100.
  3. Dividing by 100 moves every digit two places smaller: 5 becomes 0.05.

Answer: 0.05

Then questions like this one

Write 25% as a fraction in its simplest form.

A1/4B4/1C25D1/25

What Grade 5 math practises here

  • Ratios & rateswriting and simplifying ratios, and unit rates
  • Understanding percentagespercentage as parts per hundred, and converting to fractions and decimals
  • Finding a percentage of a numbercalculating a percentage of an amount, including discounts
  • Negative numbersordering and comparing negative numbers on a number line
  • Adding & subtracting negativesadding and subtracting positive and negative integers
  • Multi-step problemsmulti-step problems mixing ratios, percentages and integers

Not here yet

Multiplying and dividing big numbers and decimals, area and perimeter, angles and triangles, graphs and averages, money.

Most schools teach these this year too. Until they are here, use what your school sends home for them.

Try 5 Grade 5 math questions

English

Synonyms and antonyms, kinds of sentences, words in context.

From the lesson · Synonyms

Which word is closest in meaning to 'furious'?

  1. Decide what the word is about rather than what it means yet. Furious is about temper, so any choice that is not about temper can go.
  2. That usually leaves two, and they sit at opposite ends of it: calm at one end, angry at the other.
  3. Ask which end the question wants. Somebody furious has lost their temper, so it is the angry end — calm is the same scale read backwards.

Answer: angry

Then questions like this one

A synonym for 'enormous' is:

AtinyBhugeCangryDfast

What Grade 5 English practises here

  • Synonymschoosing words with similar meaning and the best fit for a sentence
  • Antonymsidentifying opposites and using them precisely
  • Clauses & sentence typessimple, compound and complex sentences
  • Joining sentencesconjunctions that join ideas and show relationship
  • Words in contextworking out an unfamiliar word's meaning from the sentence around it
Try 5 Grade 5 English questions

AI literacy

Predictions, AI that creates, and checking what AI says.

From the lesson · Checking what AI says

An AI says a famous waterfall is 979 metres tall. How should you check it?

  1. Find a separate trusted source, like an encyclopedia or a geography website.
  2. See whether it gives the same height.
  3. If two trusted sources agree, use it; if they do not, find out which is right.

Answer: check it in a separate trusted source

Then questions like this one

A chatbot says a famous bridge is 5 km long. What is the best way to check?

Aask the same chatbot againBlook it up in a trusted sourceCbelieve itDask a friend to guess

What Grade 5 AI literacy practises here

  • Predictions & confidencereading predictions given as chances or percentages (a 70 per cent chance of rain) and understanding that likely is not certain
  • Finding trends in dataspotting a trend in a small table or chart, and recognising when carrying a trend on into the future is risky
  • AI that createswhat generative AI makes (text, pictures, music) from patterns in work made by real people, often without asking them, why AI-made work should be labelled as AI-made, that it can invent details that are not true, and that it runs on big computers in data centres that use real electricity and water
  • Checking what AI saysways to check an AI answer: compare it with trusted sources, look for evidence, open a linked source to see whether it really says what the answer claims, notice details that may be made up, and never act on an AI answer alone when a wrong one could hurt (medicine, allergies, whether something is safe to eat or try)
  • Real or fake mediasigns that a picture, video or voice may be AI-made or edited (a deepfake) and why newer fakes may show none, the strongest check being a trusted source that reports it; and never making or sharing a fake of a real person, and telling an adult when you see one of someone you know
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Not sure Grade 5 is right?

Each grade here practises the main topic most schools teach that year. It is not everything your child's school covers. Grades are a guide, not any province's program, so a short warm-up checks your child's level first, in each subject: a child can be in one grade for English and another for math. The level moves up as they learn.

Grade 4age 9–10Math Fractions and decimals: naming them, equal fractions, adding and subtracting.English Parts of speech, verb tenses, and finding the main idea.AI Training and testing, how chatbots write, asking clear questions.Grade 6–8age 11–14Math Algebra begins: letters for numbers, simplifying, one- and two-step equations.English Grammar mechanics, inference, and an author's purpose.AI Kinds of machine learning, two kinds of mistakes, fair decisions.

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