CBSE Class 5 Mathematics Notes

Maths Topics to be covered for Class 5

• The Fish Tail: Problems based on speed distance time, number and number names, large number up to 1 crore, introducing concept of buying, selling and loan
• Parts and Wholes: Fraction, equivalent fraction, dividing different shapes and things into fraction, shading a part of whole and make fraction, patterns in parts, Ramu's vegetable fields, part to whole, conversion of time and money into fractions
• Does it look the same?: Making patterns with a drop of colour and paper folding, line of symmetry objects in the mirror, half rotation, one fourth rotation, one third rotation, one sixth rotation
• Can you see the Pattern?: Patterns from our daily life, turns and patterns, look for a pattern, magic square, magical hexagon, pattern in number series, calendar magic, puzzles and word problems related to number series
• Mapping your Way: Know about map of Delhi, distance between two points on the map, scale reading in maps, hexagons in map and angles made in between, journey of Red Fort: understanding of directions, scaling of images; big and small, map of India and its States, map of school and classroom
• Shapes and Angles: Closed and open shapes, introduction of angles, angles in geometrical shapes, measuring angles with divider, types of angles, angles in alphabets, changing shapes and angles, angles in clock, introduction to protractor D and measuring angles with it
• Be my Multiple, I will be your Factor: Introduction about multiples using tables, finding out the multiples of different number, common multiple, introduction of factors: multiplication chart, common factors, factor tree, LCM and HCF related word problems
• Tenths and Hundredths: Understanding 10th part and representing it in decimal and fraction form, understanding 100th part and representing it in decimal and fraction form, understanding relation between higher and lower units of length, weight and money, conversion of higher unit into lower unit or vice versa, currency of different countries and their value with respect to the Indian currency, temperature ( in degree Celsius)
• How many Squares?: Perimeter and area, use of a square boxes grid to find area, comparison of areas of different objects, area of triangle and comparison of area of different triangle in a grid, complete the shapes, puzzle with 5 squares
• Area and its Boundary: Introduction of area and perimeter, comparison of area of different objects, simple word problems based on area and perimeter, puzzles related to area and perimeter, dividing grid into different areas, objects with different shapes and perimeter can have some area and vice versa, finding side when area/ perimeter is given
• Smart Charts: Use of Tally marks, frequency table, reading of Tally marks, reading of Chapati chart (pie chart) and bar graph, making of bar graph and chapati chart, family tree, reading a graph using growth chart of a plant, solving questions based on bar graph and pie chart
• Ways to Multiply and Divide: Simple multiplication, multiplication by breaking method, daily life problems for multiplication, patterns in multiplication, simple division problems, division by long methods, mental puzzles of multiplication and division, checking answer of division
• Boxes and Sketches: Comparison of 2-D and 3-D figures, 3-D figures with respect to Length, breadth, height, vertices, faces and edges, visualize the net of box to think of how it looks when flattened and also to check which nets do not makeup box, deep drawings to get a sense of the need to represent depth, understanding deep drawings and layout plans, top, front and side view of 3-D figures to understand the dimensions which we can see
• How Big? How Heavy?: Understanding the concept of volume, measuring of volume, unit of volume volume of cube and cuboid, simple word problems related to volume, concept of weight, unit of weight,word problem related to weight

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