Year 5 Maths?

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Hello! Does this look like Y5 maths, to those in the know?

My son's school certainly isn't on that yet.

I'm not a teacher but I would say no - 1,2,4 are fine for a bright y5

I would guess foundation gcse

Corbett maths is a website that the teacher has printed the sheet from. Google it. Its more aimed at KS3/4. I'm a secondary maths teacher and would only be giving this to an advanced Y7 class

Yes in some privates.

For my year 5 top maths group, that would be fine.

Quite a varied response!!!!

Possibly top set in an independent school

The question that marks this out as ‘not Year 5’ is the question involving ratio.

Ratio , with the a:b notation, first explicitly appears in Y6 of the National Curriculum for Maths.

National curriculum document here

Explicit use of algebra also first appears in Year 6, although the representation of ‘an unknown’, usually using an empty box, appears from very early on, right back in Y1.

So not Year 5 inna school that teaches to the National Curriculum. If used for Year 5 in such a school, on the basis of the superficial accessibility of the ‘angles in a triangle / straight line’ problems, that’s a bit lazy. There is plenty of genuinely challenging problem solving that remains within the NC progression.

My ds is doing this in yr6 now, and questions like this were part of the 11+ that was assesed beginning of yr6.

He is at a regular state primary but usually works at greater depth for maths.

Thanks all. DD is 10 and had got a bit upset about the last question! She does get easily frustrated when she has to "try", though (most things come without effort for her). We are working on resilience, but she keeps telling me she should know how to do this and rejecting my claim that she's been given the work to stretch her because she's able, NOT that's she's "stupid" (her words 😞)

(She goes to a state school, btw, not an Indi)

Is she taking the 11+ so needs to know the year 6 curriculum by September ?

@YouJustDoYou she is, but school don't know that

This is year 6 work because it includes algebra and ratio, which are introduced in Year 6. Having said that a high ability Year 5 who has been taught these things may be able to tackle it.

Though the content may suit upper KS2, Corbetmaths is a secondary resource.

We've been through it in a calmer mood and she gets it now.

Fascinating the range of views!

My daughter does this sort of thing - top set private school