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Year 5 Number Skills

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Year 5 Number Skills

Year 5 Number Skills

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🔢 Part 1: Reading and Writing Numbers

1. Write these numbers in words:

a) 45,672 = ________________________________

b) 89,305 = ________________________________

c) 100,000 = _______________________________

2. Write these number words as digits:

a) Sixty-seven thousand, four hundred and twelve = ___________

b) Ninety-one thousand and fifty-six = ___________

c) Thirty-eight thousand, seven hundred and nine = ___________

📊 Part 2: Base 10 Structure

3. Break down these numbers into their place values:

Example: 56,789 = 50,000 + 6,000 + 700 + 80 + 9

a) 73,456 = _______ + _______ + _______ + _______ + _______

b) 92,018 = _______ + _______ + _______ + _______ + _______

c) 65,304 = _______ + _______ + _______ + _______ + _______

4. What is the value of the digit 7 in each number?

In 47,832, the digit 7 represents:

7

70

700

7,000

In 78,291, the digit 7 represents: ___________

In 23,756, the digit 7 represents: ___________

⚖️ Part 3: Comparing and Ordering Numbers

5. Use <, >, or = to compare these numbers:

a) 45,672 _____ 45,762

b) 89,304 _____ 89,304

c) 67,891 _____ 67,819

d) 100,000 _____ 99,999

e) 54,320 _____ 54,302

6. Order these numbers from smallest to largest:

78,456 | 87,654 | 78,465 | 87,645 | 78,564

7. Circle the largest number in each group:

Group A:

56,789

65,789

56,879

65,879

➕ Part 4: Addition Problems

8. Solve these addition problems. Show your working:

a) 4,567 + 2,834 = _______

b) 6,789 + 1,456 = _______

c) 3,245 + 4,678 + 1,234 = _______

9. Word problem:

A school library has 4,567 fiction books and 3,789 non-fiction books. How many books does the library have altogether?

Answer: _____________ books

➖ Part 5: Subtraction Problems

10. Solve these subtraction problems. Show your working:

a) 8,765 - 3,421 = _______

b) 9,000 - 4,567 = _______

c) 10,000 - 6,789 = _______

11. Word problem:

Auckland has a population of 56,789 people. Wellington has a population of 43,567 people. How many more people live in Auckland than Wellington?

Answer: _____________ more people

🧮 Part 6: Mixed Practice

12. Fill in the missing numbers in these sequences:

a) 45,000, 46,000, _______, 48,000, _______

b) 89,500, 89,600, _______, _______, 89,900

c) 100,000, 90,000, _______, _______, 60,000

13. Round these numbers to the nearest thousand:

a) 45,672 ≈ _____________

b) 78,234 ≈ _____________

c) 89,567 ≈ _____________

d) 92,499 ≈ _____________

14. Check all the numbers that are greater than 75,000:

74,999

75,001

76,543

74,876

80,000

15. Challenge problem:

I am thinking of a 5-digit number. The tens digit is 4, the thousands digit is 7, the hundreds digit is 0, the ten-thousands digit is 2, and the units digit is 9. What is my number?

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