Québec · Grade 5

Mathematics

Three competencies: solving situational problems, reasoning with mathematical concepts and processes, communicating with mathematical language

Content is set for the two-year cycle (Cycle Three); teachers spread it over the two years.

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

AArithmetic

Natural numbers less than 1 000 000; integers; decimals to thousandths; fractions, decimals and percentages; divisibility, prime factors, exponents, order of operations

GGeometry

Cartesian plane (four quadrants); triangles, circles (radius, diameter, circumference); Euler's theorem on polyhedra; translations, reflections and tessellations

MMeasurement

Kilometre; angles in degrees with a protractor; area, volume (cm³, dm³, m³), capacity, mass, time and temperature; converting units

SStatistics

Interpreting circle graphs; calculating the arithmetic mean

PProbability

Theoretical and experimental probability; probabilities as fractions, decimals or percentages from 0 to 1; simulations