Year 5 Number Worksheets

We have packed a substantial amount of learning into these comprehensive worksheets! Finding quality maths resources for Year 5 that properly address the curriculum's increased demands can be challenging for busy educators. Our Year 5 maths worksheet collection systematically covers every essential skill progression from the national curriculum. Each worksheet includes comprehensive worked solutions that demonstrate complete mathematical reasoning, helping students grasp methodology rather than simply memorising procedures. We've carefully structured these printable resources to develop deep conceptual understanding alongside procedural fluency.

The advanced skills covered include:

• Fractions: We've found that fractions are where most Year 5 students either have their "lightbulb moment" or need the most patient support, so having this many resources is absolutely essential.

• Decimals: Decimals bridge the gap beautifully between fractions and percentages, and students love how "grown-up" they feel when working with money and measurements.

• Multiplication and Division: These operations become much more sophisticated in Year 5, and we've noticed that students who master these methods early gain real confidence for secondary school.

• Powers, Factors, Multiples, and Prime Numbers: This is where mathematics starts feeling more like detective work - students genuinely enjoy hunting for patterns and solving these number puzzles.

• Powers of Ten Operations: Once students grasp the "moving digits" pattern here, they feel like mathematical magicians and their mental maths improves dramatically.

• Place Value and Large Numbers: Working with numbers in the millions makes students feel incredibly capable, and it's surprisingly practical for understanding population figures and distances.

• Percentages and Equivalences: Students always get excited when they realise they can convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages - it's like learning a secret mathematical language.

• Word Problems: These are where students apply everything they've learned, and we love seeing them develop that crucial skill of translating real situations into mathematics.

• Rounding: Rounding might seem simple, but it's incredibly useful for helping students estimate and check that their answers make sense.

• Roman Numerals: Students are always fascinated by how the Romans counted, and it really helps them appreciate our modern number system.

• Money: Nothing makes mathematics feel more relevant than working with real money situations that students encounter in their daily lives.

• Temperature/Negative Numbers: Temperature contexts make negative numbers feel completely natural - students instantly understand why we'd have numbers below zero.

We've found that connecting mathematical learning to authentic situations makes Year 5 number work significantly more engaging and memorable. These worksheets prepare students for numerical challenges they encounter in increasingly sophisticated real-world contexts.

Practical applications include:

• Advanced money management - Calculating costs for family holidays, comparing mobile phone contracts, managing savings goals up to £10,000

• Sports statistics analysis - Understanding stadium capacities, calculating attendance figures, interpreting professional league data

• Geography and population studies - Comparing city populations, calculating distances between countries, understanding map scales

• Technology and data - Interpreting website visitor numbers, understanding file sizes, calculating storage requirements

• Environmental awareness - Understanding recycling statistics, calculating carbon footprints, interpreting climate data

• Business and enterprise - Calculating profit margins, understanding large-scale manufacturing numbers, interpreting economic indicators