Measurement
Geometry
Rational Numbers
Maths progressions goals for your child can be found on Hero.
Term 3 Maths Progressions
Maths progressions will differ from student to student but may include the following:
Measurement (Weeks 1-2)
Students will measure, convert, and calculate using metric and time units, solve problems involving angles, area, volume, and time duration, and apply benchmark fractions and decimals in measurement.
Year 5 Measurement
Estimate and then accurately measure length, mass (weight), capacity, temperature, and duration, using appropriate metric or time-based units or a combination of units.
Use the appropriate tool for a measurement and the appropriate unit for the attribute being measured.
Use the metric measurement system to explore relationships between units, including relationships represented by benchmark fractions and decimals.
Describe angles using the terms acute, right, obtuse, straight, and reflex, comparing them with benchmarks of 90, 180, and 360 degrees.
Describe the differences in duration between units of time (e.g., days and weeks, months, and years), and solve duration-of-time problems involving 'am' and 'pm' notation.
Visualise, estimate, and calculate: the perimeter of regular polygons (in m, cm, and mm); the area of shapes covered with squares or partial squares; the volume of rectangular prisms.
Year 6 Measurement
Visualise, estimate, and calculate the area of rectangles and right-angled triangles (in cm² and m²) and the volume of rectangular prisms (in cm³), by applying multiplication.
Convert between units of time and solve duration-of-time problems, in both 12 and 24 hour time systems
Visualise, measure, and draw (to the nearest degree) the amount of turn in angles up to 360 degrees.
Convert between common metric units for length, mass (weight), and capacity, and use decimals to express parts of wholes in measurements.
Select and use the appropriate tool for a measurement and the appropriate unit for the attribute being measured.
Estimate and then accurately measure length, mass (weight), capacity, temperature, and duration, using appropriate metric or time-based units or a combination of units.
Geometry (Weeks 3-5)
Students will focus on developing an understanding of 2D and 3D shapes, including their attributes and transformations. Students learn to describe shapes, recognise lines, visualise solids, resize shapes, and use grid maps with directional language.
Year 5 Geometry
Identify, classify, and describe the attributes of: regular and irregular polygons, using edges, vertices, and angles; prisms, using cross sections, faces, edges, and vertices.
Identify and describe parallel and perpendicular lines, including those forming the sides of polygons.
Visualise 3D shapes and connect them with nets, 2D diagrams, verbal descriptions, and the same shapes drawn from different perspectives.
Resize (enlarge or reduce) a 2D shape.
Interpret and create grid maps to plot positions and pathways, using grid references and directional language, including the four main compass points.
Year 6 Geometry
Identify, classify, and explain similarities and differences between: 2D shapes, including different types of triangle; prisms and pyramids.
Identify and describe the interior angles of triangles and quadrilaterals.
Visualise and draw nets for rectangular prisms.
Visualise, create, and describe 2D geometric patterns and tessellations, using rotation, reflection, and translation and identifying the properties of shapes that do not change.
Interpret and create grid references and simple scales on maps use directional language, including the four main compass points, turn (in degrees), and distance (in m, km) to locate and describe positions and pathways.
Use directional language, including the four main compass points, turn (in degrees), and distance (in m, km) to locate and describe positions and pathways.
Rational Numbers (Weeks 6-10)
Students will focus on building an understanding of fractions and decimals, including reading, writing, comparing, and converting between forms. Students learn to add, subtract, and scale using fractions and decimals, and to divide whole numbers by 10 and 100. They also work with mixed numbers, improper fractions, and fractional parts of sets.
Year 5 Rational Numbers
Identify, read, write, and represent tenths and hundredths as fractions and decimals.
Compare and order tenths and hundredths as fractions and decimals, and convert decimal tenths and hundredths to fractions.
Divide whole numbers by 10 and 100 to make decimals.
For fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 100: compare and order the fractions; identify when two fractions are equivalent.
Convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions with denominators of up to 10.
Find a fraction of a whole number, using multiplication and division facts and where the answer is a whole number (e.g., 2/3 of 24); identify, from a fractional part of a set, the whole set.
Identify, from a fractional part of a set, the whole set.
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominators, including to make more than one whole.
Add and subtract whole numbers and decimals to two decimal places (e.g., 32.55 – 21.21 = 11.34).
Use known multiplication facts to scale a quantity.
Year 6 Rational Numbers
Identify, read, write, and represent fractions, decimals (to two places), and related percentages.
Compare and order fractions, decimals (to two places), and percentages, and convert decimals and percentages to fractions.
Multiply and divide numbers by 10 and 100 to make decimals and whole numbers (e.g., 1.3 × 10 = 13).
For fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 100: compare and order the fractions; identify when two fractions are equivalent; represent the fractions in their simplest form.
Convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions.
Find a fraction or percentage of a whole number where the answer is a whole number (e.g., 3/8 of 48; 30% of $150).
Identify, from a fractional part of a set, the whole set.
Add and subtract fractions with the same or related denominators (e.g., 1/44 + 1/8).
Add and subtract whole numbers and decimals to two decimal places (e.g., 250.11 + 135.29 = 385.4).
Use known multiplication and division facts to scale a quantity.