Help your primary school class to develop their mathematical understanding of Number and Place Value with this range of mastery maths teaching slides, worksheets, games, activities, assessments and additional teaching resources.

Number and Place Value

Diagnostic assessments are a great way to identify strengths and areas for improvement both before and after teaching a topic. These low-stakes assessments will help inform your planning and better understand your class.

Diagnostic Assessments by Topic

Use the pre topic assessments to identify the strengths and areas of development for you class before teaching a block of work. Then, use the post topic assessment to assess progress after teaching a block of work. 

As these assessments are multiple choice, they offer pupils a low-stakes assessment. 

The mark scheme includes details of which answer is correct and explains why the distractor answers are wrong. 

Your Guide to Diagnostic Assessments by Topic

Here you can find a range of Year 5 teaching slides, worksheets, activities, games, assessments and additional teaching resources to help you teach your Year 5 class the Key Stage 2 primary maths curriculum.

Year 5

 Diagnostic Assessments by Topic

Assess your Year 5 pupils’ understanding of negative numbers using these pre and post topic diagnostic tests.

Diagnostic assessments can be used to diagnose specific misconceptions and learning gaps before starting a block of work or after completing a block.

Use the pre-topic diagnostic assessment before teaching the Year 5 negative numbers block of work to gain a baseline understanding of your pupils’ knowledge.

Post-topic diagnostic assessments can be used at the end of the negative numbers block to identify your pupils’ progress.

Each assessment contains 20 multiple choice questions. Answers are designed by maths specialists to identify the correct answer for each question and explain the common error or misconception covered by the distractor answer.

Teachers tell us that they find it extremely valuable to assess prior knowledge before teaching a topic so they can better adapt their teaching to the needs of their class.

Year 5 negative numbers diagnostic assessments

Year 5 diagnostic assessments for negative numbers include pre and post-tests with 20 multiple choice questions each, designed to identify learning gaps and misconceptions.

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Diagnostic Assessment | Negative Numbers | Year 5

Year 5 negative numbers diagnostic assessments