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Year 5 - Addition and Subtraction

New Curriculum

  • add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)
  • add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers
  • use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy
  • solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.

Non-Statutory Guidance

Pupils practice using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction with increasingly large numbers to aid fluency (see Appendix 1).

They practice mental calculations with increasingly large numbers to aid fluency

(e.g. 12 462 – 2 300 = 10 162).

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