Mathematics 5 curriculum guide 2015 I table of contents acknowledgements

Format 
Topic 
Milk 
Salesman 
Kindergarten 
class of 25 
students 
Advertising 
- buy milk 
every 
school day! 
My company is offering a 
reward for the school 
when this class buys 
their one millionth carton 
of milk (What grade will 
the class be in?). 
Grade 5 
Student 
Parent/Guardian Request 
for 
increase in 
allowance 
Chocolate bars are about 
$1.00 each. You need 
an increase in your 
allowance in order to be 
able to eat one million 
chocolate bars in one 
year. 
Grandma Banker 
Business 
letter 
I have been saving 
pennies ever since I was 
a girl. I have 1 000 000 
of them. Now that the 
Bank of Canada no 
longer uses pennies, I 
want to trade them in and 
go to Egypt to see the 
pyramids. How much 
money will I get for my 
pennies? 

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MATHEMATICS 5 CURRICULUM GUIDE 2015
Specific Outcomes
NUMERATION
Suggestions for Teaching and Learning
Students will be expected to:
Number
5N8 Describe and represent 
decimals (tenths, hundredths, 
thousandths) concretely, 
pictorially and symbolically.
[C, CN, R, V]
In Grade 4, students represented and described decimals (tenths and 
hundredths) concretely, pictorially and symbolically. In Grade 5, this is 
extended to include thousandths.
Through the use of concrete materials, pictorial representations, and 
modelling, students strengthen the understanding that the use of 
decimals can extend the place value system to represent parts of a whole 
or mixed numbers. The decimal point is the symbol that marks the 
separation of part from whole; it separates the tenths from the ones.
The symmetry of the decimal number system occurs around the ones 
place and the decimal. Teachers should focus on continuing the pattern 
of the base ten number system so that the unit (or the whole) is divided 
into ten, a hundred or a thousand equal parts (tenths, hundredths, 
thousandths). 
There are many concrete materials that will aid students in their 
understanding of decimals:
• grid paper
80 hundredths or 0.80
• base ten blocks
three 
hundred 
forty-five 
thousandths 
or 
0.345
• number lines (tenths, hundredths, and thousandths)
nine 
tenths 
or 
0.9
• metre stick (millimetres are thousandths of a metre)
5N8.1 Express orally and in 
written form the decimal for 
a given symbolic, concrete or 
pictorial representation of a part 
of a set, part of a region, or part 
of a unit of measure.