Grade 5Mathematics

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 5 Mathematics curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1NumbersThe largest strand, and the one everything else leans on: place value, the four operations, fractions, decimals and the first equations.8 topics·171 questions

  • Whole Numbers

    8 skills

    Place value up to hundreds of thousands, reading and writing numbers in words, rounding, the divisibility tests for 2, 5 and 10, and finding the HCF and the LCM.

  • Addition

    5 skills

    Adding numbers up to six digits, with and without regrouping, and estimating the answer first by rounding.

  • Subtraction

    6 skills

    Taking away up to six digits with regrouping, estimating the difference, and the first combined sums where adding and subtracting appear together.

  • Multiplication

    4 skills

    Three digits by two digits, estimating the product, and the number patterns multiplication makes.

  • Division

    6 skills

    Three digits by two digits, how division undoes multiplication, dividing by 1000, and combined sums using all four operations.

  • Fractions

    8 skills

    Simplifying, comparing and ordering, then adding and subtracting them, including the ones where a fraction has to be renamed first. The topic to get right.

  • Decimals

    5 skills

    Place value down to thousandths, putting decimals in order, and adding and subtracting them.

  • Simple Equations

    3 skills

    Writing a real situation as an equation with one unknown, and then solving it. The beginning of algebra.

2MeasurementSeven topics and the most practical strand on the page: distance, area, volume, capacity, mass, time and money.7 topics·170 questions

  • Length

    9 skills

    The kilometre arrives. Estimating distances, converting between kilometres and metres, and all four operations on both.

  • Area

    3 skills

    The square centimetre, and working out the area of rectangles and squares.

  • Volume

    6 skills

    The cubic centimetre, and deriving the formulas for a cuboid and a cube rather than being handed them.

  • Capacity

    10 skills

    The millilitre, how it relates to the litre, and all four operations on both. Done with real containers wherever possible.

  • Mass

    10 skills

    The gramme, how it relates to the kilogramme, and all four operations on both.

  • Time

    9 skills

    The second arrives, read off both digital and analogue clocks, and converted against minutes.

  • Money

    7 skills

    Budgets of up to five items, what tax is and what it pays for, what banks do, and what helps a person save. The most useful topic in Grade 5.

3GeometryLines, angles and solid shapes, and the first proper use of a protractor.3 topics·43 questions

  • Lines

    7 skills

    Horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel, and drawing each of them accurately.

  • Angles

    6 skills

    Turns as angles, reading a protractor in both directions, and measuring in degrees.

  • Three Dimension (3-D) Objects

    3 skills

    Describing solid objects, and spotting the flat shapes that make them up.

4Data HandlingOne topic, and a skill used in every other subject: collecting real data and showing it so somebody else can read it.1 topic·16 questions

  • Data Representation

    6 skills

    Tally marks, frequency tables, and reading an answer back out of a table somebody else made.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 5 Mathematics curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

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Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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