Highlights of student learning in Grade 5

• Number Sense and Numeration

  • Representing and ordering numbers to 100 000

  • Comparing and ordering fractional amounts with like denominators

  • Multiplying two-digit whole numbers by two-digit whole number

  • Relating simple fractions to decimals

• Measurement

  • Measuring time intervals to the nearest second, temperature

  • Converting from metres to centimetres and from kilometres to metres

  • Relating capacity and volume

  • Developing and applying the volume relationship for a right rectangular prism

• Geometry and Spatial Sense

  • Distinguishing among polygons and among prisms

  • Identifying acute, right, obtuse, and straight angles; measuring angles to 90° with a protractor; constructing triangles

  • Constructing nets of prisms and pyramids;

  • Performing and describing translations

• Patterning and Algebra

  • Representing a pattern using a table of values

  • Predicting terms in a pattern

  • Determining the missing numbers in equations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division and one- or two-digit numbers

  • Investigating variables as unknown quantities

  • Demonstrating equality using multiplication or division in equations with unknown quantities on both sides

• Data Management and Probability

  • Collecting and organizing discrete and continuous data

  • Displaying data using broken-line graphs; sampling data from a population

  • Understanding mean; comparing two related sets of data

  • Representing probability using fractions