Grade 5 deepens everything: decimals and fractions start working together, and explanations matter as much as answers. Here is the year as BC schools actually teach it — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
British Columbia 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.
Number concepts and place value to 1 000 000, multiples, whole-number benchmarks, and comparing, ordering, and estimating large quantities.
Adding and subtracting whole numbers to 1 000 000 and multiplying and dividing to three digits including division with remainders, with emerging facts to 100.
Equivalent fractions, decimals to thousandths, whole-number, fraction, and decimal benchmarks, and adding and subtracting decimals to thousandths.
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.
Rules for increasing and decreasing patterns using words, numbers, symbols, and variables, and solving one-step equations with a variable.
Measuring the area of squares and rectangles, the relationship between area and perimeter, and elapsed time and duration.
Classifying prisms and pyramids and describing single transformations (slide/translation, flip/reflection, turn/rotation).
Double bar graphs with many-to-one correspondence, probability experiments with single events represented as fractions, and monetary calculations and simple financial plans to $1000.
Which is bigger: 0.5 or 0.35?
The basic structures and functions of the digestive, musculo-skeletal, respiratory, and circulatory body systems.
Solutions as homogeneous mixtures, the solubility of solids, liquids, and gases, and ways of separating solutions such as distillation, evaporation, and crystallization.
The properties of simple machines and their force effects, machines that are constructed or found in nature, and power as the rate at which energy is transferred.
The rock cycle, local types of earth materials, and the nature of sustainable practices around BC's natural resources.
Why does your heart beat faster when you run?
The development and evolution of Canadian identity over time and the changing nature of Canadian immigration, including push and pull factors, settlement patterns, and the contributions of immigrants.
An age-appropriate understanding that in Canada's past, some laws and government actions treated certain groups unfairly, and that those communities showed resilience and that people worked toward fairness; focus on the values of fairness, equality, and respect and on the strength and contributions of the affected communities — not on the distressing specifics of any policy or incident.
Human rights in Canada and how people have worked toward fairness and equality — the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and individuals who stood up for what is right; focus on fairness, courage, and positive change and on respect for all people, at a general level without distressing detail.
The levels of government in Canada (First Peoples, federal, provincial, and municipal), their main functions and sources of funding, and how citizens participate and are represented in Canada's system of government.
Resources and economic activity across Canada's regions, and First Peoples' relationships with the land, including treaties and the importance of land to their communities; told respectfully and centring First Peoples' perspectives, focused on understanding and on balancing different needs — describe any map fully in words.
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 (BC's curriculum 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.