Year 5 Reasoning Test Practice 2

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 5 Reasoning Test Practice 2 activity checks pupils’ understanding of counting forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000, interpreting and presenting discrete and continuous data using tables and graphs, solving problems involving fractions, adding and subtracting numbers with up to three digits, and solving problems involving numbers up to three decimal places. After answering the question, pupils may need to select an appropriate explanation for their answer.

Pupils will need to find a missing number in a given sequence, select the correct total based on information from a table, convert a whole into fractions, complete a given calculation, and find a number based on given clues.

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National Curriculum Objectives

Number – number and place value
(5N1) Count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000

Number – addition and subtraction
(3C2) Add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
(3C3) Estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers

Number – Fractions
(4F10a) Solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number
(5F10) Solve problems involving numbers up to three decimal places

Statistics
(4S1) Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs