Grade 5 deepens everything: decimals and fractions start working together, and explanations matter as much as answers. Here is the year as Ontario 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.
Ontario 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.
Reading, representing, comparing and ordering whole numbers to 100 000.
Multi-digit multiplication and division; order of operations with whole numbers.
Equivalence and comparison among fractions, decimals and percents.
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.
Patterns and relationships; variables, expressions, and simple equations.
Properties of 2D shapes and 3D figures; angle properties; the Cartesian plane.
Metric units; area of rectangles and triangles; data, mean, and probability.
Money, budgets, spending and saving, and the idea of value and trade-offs.
Which is bigger: 0.5 or 0.35?
The structure and function of human body systems and interactions within and between systems.
The properties of matter, changes of state, and physical and chemical change.
Forces that act on structures, and how various structures withstand them.
The conservation of energy, and the forms, sources, and uses of energy and resources.
Why does your heart beat faster when you run?
The cultures, knowledge, and perspectives of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples and their early interactions, trade, and alliances with Europeans in early Canada (before 1713) — told respectfully and centring Indigenous perspectives; focus on understanding these nations and their ways of life, not on conflict or hardship as quiz facts.
The role of government in Canada and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
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 2020 Ontario math 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.