Year 5 · NAPLAN
Year 5 NAPLAN numeracy practice
By Year 5 the questions carry more than one step, and the hardest part is often deciding what to do first. Fractions, decimals and measurement start turning up in the same question, and a child who is fluent with each one separately can still be caught out when they arrive together.
What the section covers
- Number
- Place value, counting patterns, the four operations, fractions of a shape or a group.
- Algebra
- Continuing a pattern, finding the missing term, describing the rule behind a sequence.
- Measurement
- Length, mass, capacity and time — reading scales and clocks, comparing, choosing sensible units.
- Space and geometry
- Naming 2D shapes and 3D objects by their properties, symmetry, position and direction.
- Statistics and probability
- Reading picture graphs and column graphs, answering questions from a table, how likely something is.
Sample questions
8 real questions from our Year 5 papers, covering the different ways this section asks things. Answer the ones you can click; the rest show how they work. Nothing to sign up for.
Question 1
Which of the following has the largest area?
Question 2
Which object measures temperature?
Question 3
Which angle looks most like 60°?
Question 4
Which clock shows Mia’s wake-up time?
Question 5
Where is the plane located on the grid?
Question 6
How many of the shapes that Polina drew are prisms?
Question 7
What shapes did Julie use to make this figure?
Julie combined some shapes to build the object below:
Question 8
Rearrange the pumpkins in order from the heaviest to the lightest.
Here are the weights of four pumpkins:
4 remainingItems to organise
Drag each item into a category. On touch screens, tap an item and then tap a category.
Heaviest0Drop items here
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Light0Drop items here
Lightest0Drop items here
Keep going with the full papers
Twenty-seven Year 5 numeracy papers, 411 questions, from single-topic sets to full-length timed papers.
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