Maths for P5

Build P5 fluency in the four operations on whole numbers: mental strategies for addition and subtraction, secure recall of multiplication facts up to 10 by 10 (focus on 6, 7, 8, 9 tables), written column addition and subtraction with up to 4 digits, short multiplication, short division with and without remainders, multiples and factors of small numbers, brackets in simple expressions.

Pupils' first proper KS2 introduction to vulgar fractions: halves, quarters, eighths, thirds, sixths, fifths, tenths. Fractions of shapes and of sets; comparison of fractions with the same denominator and unit fractions with different denominators; simple visual equivalence; mixed numbers. Operations on fractions and decimal/percentage equivalents are deferred to P6.

Money at P5: pounds-and-pence notation, four operations with money, simple budgeting, saving toward a goal, and the value-for-money idea. The Euro is named at KS2 and treated lightly at P5 in the cross-border-trip context; full Euro work is a P6/P7 topic.

CCEA Measures strand at P5: estimation; reading rulers, scales and jugs; whole-number metric conversions (cm-m, g-kg, ml-L); perimeter of rectangles and irregular shapes; area by counting squares with the length-by-width shortcut for rectangles; reading temperature on a thermometer (above zero only). Decimal conversions, volume of cuboids and negative temperatures are deferred to P6.

Time at P5: analogue and digital 12-hour clocks; time intervals; calendar; reading a simple Translink bus or train timetable. Simple maps with the eight points of the compass. The 24-hour clock is a P6 topic.

Naming and classifying 2D shapes (triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagon, hexagon, octagon) and 3D shapes (cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder, cone, square-based pyramid, triangular prism); line symmetry by folding; faces, edges, vertices; recognising right angles in the environment; the language of turn (whole, half, quarter, three-quarter; clockwise / anti-clockwise); reinforcing eight-point compass directions. Rotational symmetry, tessellation, congruence and degree-measurement of angles are deferred to P6 and P7.

Pupils' first proper KS2 introduction to data handling. Collect data with a tally chart; build a frequency table; represent the same data with a pictogram (each picture stands for 1, 2 or 5) or a bar chart; read and create simple tables; choose between pictogram and bar chart; design a survey end-to-end. The mean, range, grouped frequency tables and spreadsheets are deferred to P6 and P7.

P5 introduction to probability language: certain, impossible, possible, likely, unlikely, equally likely. Order events on a probability line in everyday-language terms; list outcomes of simple random events (coin, die, spinner); predict roughly what many trials would give. The numerical probability scale (0 to 1) and probability as a fraction are deferred to P6 and P7. The module closes with end-of-year consolidation and a look forward to P6.