Year 5 Reasoning Test Practice 5

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 5 Reasoning Test Practice 5 activity checks pupils’ understanding of ordering and comparing numbers beyond 1,000, comparing and ordering fractions, solving problems involving fractions, counting forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10, and adding and subtracting numbers.

Pupils will select numbers from given selections, organise fractions in a given order, solve a word problem involving fractions, count backwards in powers of 10, and use inverse operations to solve calculations.

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National Curriculum Objectives

Number – number and place value
(4n2a) Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000
(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
(5F3) Compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number