CBSE Class 5 Syllabus Mathematics (2025-26) | Latest Edition

Geometry                       (16 hrs.) SHAPES & SPATIAL UNDERSTANDING

•  Gets the feel of perspective while drawing a 3-D object in 2-D.

•  Gets the feel of an angle through observation and paper folding.

•  Identifies right angles in the environment.

•  Classifies angles into right, acute and obtuse angles.

•  Represents right angle, acute angle and obtuse angle by drawing and tracing.

•  Explores intuitively rotations and reflections of familiar 2-D shapes.

•  Explores intuitively symmetry in familiar 3-D shapes.

• Makes the shapes of cubes, cylinders and cones using nets especially designed for this purpose.

Numbers                       (40 hrs.) NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS

•  Finds place value in numbers beyond 1000.

•  Appreciates the role of place value

in  addition,  subtraction and multiplication algorithms.

•  Uses  infor mal  and  standard division algorithms.

•  Explains the meaning of factors and multiples.

MENTAL ARITHMETIC

• Estimates sums, differences, products and quotients and verifies using approximation.

FRACTIONAL NUMBERS

•  Finds the fractional part of a collection.

•  Compares fractions.

•  Identifies equivalent fractions.

•  Uses decimal fractions in the context of units of length and money

•  Expresses a given fraction in decimal notation and vice versa.

Money                              (5 hrs.)

•  Applies the four operations in solving problems involving money.

Measurement                 (26 hrs.) LENGTH

•  Determines area and perimeter of simple geometrical figures.

•  Applies the four operations in solving problems involving length, weight and volume.

•  Relates commonly used larger and smaller units of length, weight and volume and converts one to the other.

• Applies simple fractions to quantities.

•  Converts fractional larger unit into complete smaller units.

•  Appreciates volume of a solid body: intuitively and also by informal measurement.

•  Uses addition and subtraction in finding time intervals in simple cases.

Data Handling                 (6 hrs.)

• Collects      two-dimensional quantitative data. represents the data in the form of a table.

• Draws a bar graph or a pictograph to present a data.

Patterns                            (6 hrs.)

•  Identifies patterns in square numbers, triangular numbers.

• Relates sequences of odd numbers between consecutive square numbers.

•  Makes border strip and tiling patterns.

Geometry (16 hrs.)

SHAPES & SPATIAL UNDERSTANDING

• Gets the feel of perspective while drawing a 3-D object in 2-D.
• Gets the feel of an angle through observation and paper folding.
• Identifies right angles in the environment.
• Classifies angles into right, acute and obtuse angles.
• Represents right angle, acute angle and obtuse angle by drawing and tracing.
• Explores intuitively rotations and reflections of familiar 2-D shapes.
• Explores intuitively symmetry in familiar 3-D shapes.
• Makes the shapes of cubes, cylinders and cones using nets especially designed for this purpose.

Numbers (40 hrs.)

NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS

• Finds place value in numbers beyond 1000.
• Appreciates the role of place value in addition, subtraction and multiplication algorithms.
• Uses informal and standard division algorithms.
• Explains the meaning of factors and multiples.

MENTAL ARITHMETIC

• Estimates sums, differences, products and quotients and verifies using approximation.

FRACTIONAL NUMBERS

• Finds the fractional part of a collection.
• Compares fractions.
• Identifies equivalent fractions.
• Estimates the degree of closeness of a fraction to known fractions (1/2 ,1/4, 3/4) etc.
• Uses decimal fractions in the context of units of length and money.
• Expresses a given fraction in decimal notation and vice versa.

Money (5 hrs.)

• Applies the four operations in solving problems involving money. Measurement (26 hrs.)

LENGTH

• Determines area and perimeter of simple geometrical figures.
• Applies the four operations in solving problems involving length, weight and volume.
• Relates commonly used larger and smaller units of length, weight and volume and converts one to the other.
• Applies simple fractions to quantities.
• Converts fractional larger unit into complete smaller units.
• Appreciates volume of a solid body: intuitively and also by informal measurement.
• Uses addition and subtraction in finding time intervals in simple cases.

Data Handling (6 hrs.)

• Collects two-dimensional quantitative data represents the data in the form of a table.
• Draws a bar graph or a pictograph to present a data.

Patterns (6 hrs.)

• Identifies patterns in square numbers, triangular numbers.
• Relates sequences of odd numbers between consecutive square numbers.
• Makes border strip and tiling patterns.