📊Oxford Mathematics Grade 5

Grade 5 is the year percentages arrive, and percentages are where a weak grasp of fractions finally shows up. The course therefore opens with two weeks of fraction diagnostics and targeted repair before touching anything new.

Algebra also makes its first appearance, kept deliberately concrete: a letter is a box you have not opened yet. Children write expressions from word descriptions long before they solve anything.

What your child will be able to do

By the end of this course, a learner working at the expected pace will be able to:

• Use long division with two-digit divisors
• Solve percentage-increase and percentage-of-amount problems
• Share quantities in a given ratio and scale recipes
• Calculate volume of cuboids and surface area
• Substitute into and solve simple one-step equations

How the course is structured

Oxford Mathematics Grade 5 is organised into 6 units covering 178 lessons in total, designed to run across 36 weeks at roughly 5 hours a week. The unit outline below shows 27 representative lessons.

Number and calculation

• Numbers to ten million
• Long division with two-digit divisors
• Order of operations
• Mental strategies for awkward numbers

Fractions and decimals

• Multiplying and dividing fractions
• Mixed numbers and improper fractions
• Decimal multiplication and division
• Rounding decimals in context

Percentages and ratio

• Percentage of an amount
• Percentage increase and decrease
• Ratio and proportion
• Scaling recipes and maps
• Best-buy problems

Algebraic thinking

• Letters standing for numbers
• Writing expressions from words
• Substitution
• One-step equations
• Sequences and the nth term (informally)

Geometry and measure

• Angles in triangles and quadrilaterals
• Angles around a point and on a line
• Volume of cuboids
• Surface area
• Circles: radius, diameter, circumference

Statistics

• Mean, median, mode and range
• Line graphs and conversion graphs
• Pie charts
• Misleading graphs

How it is taught

Ratio and percentage problems are taught with the same bar-model tool used since Grade 1, so the representation is familiar even when the numbers are not. This continuity is the main reason the topic lands more easily here than in most schemes.

What is included

• 178 lessons
• 180 worksheets, ratio tables and volume nets
• 48 quizzes, six unit tests, two full papers
• Termly reports mapped to grade-level expectations

Who this course suits

This course sits in the Grade 5 track and follows a oxford-aligned sequence. It suits families who want a complete, sequenced mathematics year rather than a set of loose practice activities, and it assumes no teaching experience — every lesson includes a short method note for the adult. If your child is comfortably ahead or behind the intermediate level described here, use the placement check in lesson one and start at the recommended point instead of lesson one.