Grade 5 deepens everything: decimals and fractions start working together, and explanations matter as much as answers. Here is the year as Alberta schools teach it under the new curriculum — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
Alberta math runs as a sequence: each unit builds on the one before it. The week ranges below follow the school year from September; teachers vary pacing.
Analyzing patterns in place value to 1 000 000; decimal numbers to thousandths — representing, comparing and ordering.
Worth watching: mixing decimals and fractions trips many kids ("0.35 > 0.5 because 35 > 5"). Place value is the cure, and it responds quickly to practice.
Adding and subtracting within 1 000 000, including decimal numbers to thousandths, using standard algorithms.
Multiplying and dividing natural numbers within 100 000 including standard algorithms; determining divisibility of natural numbers.
Interpreting improper fractions and mixed numbers; adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators; employing ratios to represent relationships between quantities.
Interpreting numerical and algebraic expressions; relating terms to position within an arithmetic sequence.
Investigating symmetry as a geometric property; relating location to position on a grid with ordered pairs in the first quadrant.
Estimating and calculating area using standard units; analyzing frequency in categorical data with tables and graphs.
Which is bigger: 0.5 or 0.35?
Investigating the particle model of matter in relation to the physical properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Investigating and comparing how forces — buoyancy, drag, lift — affect living things and objects in water and air.
Investigating and analyzing various energy resources — renewable and non-renewable — and how they are used.
Analyzing climate and connecting it to weather conditions and agricultural practices in Alberta and beyond.
Investigating the internal systems of organisms — digestive, respiratory, circulatory — and explaining how they support vital biological processes.
Investigating and interpreting astronomical phenomena — day and night, seasons, phases of the Moon; how evidence is gathered and why ethics matter in science.
Why does your heart beat faster when you run?
Examining ancient civilizations — where and how the earliest societies formed, and what made them civilizations.
Examining how geographical features and environmental changes contributed to the settlement and trade of ancient civilizations — rivers, coasts, climate.
Examining the development of economic practices in ancient civilizations — farming, currency, markets and trade networks.
Examining government and social systems in ancient civilizations and empires — rulers, laws, citizens and daily life.
Investigating ways to learn about the world and take action for positive change in communities.
Unlike math and science, the language curriculum isn't taught as a sequence of units — it's a set of skills that deepen all year: reading comprehension and inference, writing structure and conventions, vocabulary, and oral communication. French works the same way. Homework Hub practises these as grade-matched weekly skills — a reading passage with real comprehension questions, a sentence to fix, a short prompt to write to — rather than pretending there's a unit list.
Homework Hub generates fresh questions matched to these very units — in season, at your child's level, marked with hints that teach. You set the days; it does the rest.
Start your free trial →This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (the new Alberta curriculum (program of studies) and current science and social studies expectations, described in our own words). School boards and teachers vary pacing — week ranges are a typical rhythm, not a rule.