Provincial assessment · New Brunswick
Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment
- Grade 5
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- Total time
- 1 h
- Marked questions
- 30
- Calculator
- Not allowed
- Format
- On a computer
NB Grade 5 Math Assessment practice test
The whole exam or the parts you choose, in its own format, on the clock.
The exam in the app
Its parts, and what you can use in each
A question, timed, with the exam’s tools
The marked result, part by part
A practice run of Saskatchewan’s Grade 9 math assessment.
Free with a MapleMind account
When
Spring assessment window
- May 25 to May 31, 2027School day · Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment (the school sets the day)
The dates are New Brunswick’s own, read on September 29, 2026. See the official schedule (gnb.ca)
What’s on it
4 topics. Number Sense counts most, at 65%.
- Number Sense65%Quantity and Place Value; Operations
- Patterns & Relations15%Patterns & Algebra
- Shape & Space10%Measurement; Geometry
- Statistics & Probability10%Data and Currency
The skills it tests · 38 skills
- Adding decimals to thousandths
- Annexing zero and halving/doubling for multiplication
- Building prisms for a given volume
- Comparing decimals with benchmarks
- Comparing decimals with place value and equivalents
- Comparing fractions with like and unlike denominators
- Comparing the likelihood of two outcomes
- Compatible numbers
- Decimals and fractions to thousandths
- Decimals to thousandths
- Dividing with remainders
- Double bar graphs
- Equivalent fractions
- Estimating capacity
- Estimating volume
- First-hand and second-hand data
- Front-end rounding and compensation
- Identifying a transformation
- Likelihood of a single outcome
- Measuring and recording capacity
- Measuring and recording volume
- Measuring length (mm and km)
- Millilitres and litres
- Multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit
- Nines patterns and repeated doubling/halving
- One-step equations
- Parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular
- Pattern rules and predictions
- Performing a transformation
- Rectangles from perimeter or area
- Referents for capacity
- Referents for volume
- Skip-counting and doubling/halving for facts to 81
- Sorting quadrilaterals
- Subtracting decimals to thousandths
- Using the distributive property
- Vertical and horizontal
- Whole numbers to 1 000 000
How it’s built
- Mathematics
- Time
- 60 min
- Questions
- 30
- Marks
- 30
- Of the marks
- 100%
- Multiple choice
- Numerical response
Questions on number sense, patterns and algebra, measurement and geometry, and data and money: multiple choice, fill in a number, drag-and-drop and drop-down. No calculator.
How it’s marked
- Below Appropriate Achievement
- Appropriate Achievement
- Strong Achievement
A computer marks your answers. There's no pass mark: you get an achievement level, and Appropriate Achievement or above counts as successful.
On the day
One online sitting, followed by a short survey, with no calculator. You may use text-to-speech and switch between English and French, and blue words show an explanation when you tap them. Everyone may take up to double the time: 60 minutes plus another 60.
Getting ready
4 official documents to practise with, and 3 tips.
Official practice
Tips from the people who write it
- Try the online practice first: it walks through every question format.
- For fill-in-the-blank questions, enter a number only.
- Practise without a calculator: none is allowed.
After the exam
- Results
Results are published by school, district and province, with summary results in the fall of 2027.
- If you miss it
Barring exceptional circumstances, every student takes part. A student can be exempted when their Personalized Learning Plan says so, in the first stages of learning English, or after a serious illness, a bereavement or another event no one could plan for. Parents are always part of the decision.
From Assessments and evaluations (Anglophone sector), with the information for parents for each grade (gnb.ca) and Provincial Assessment Program: Protocols for Accommodations and Exemptions (gnb.ca), read on October 27, 2026.
More for you
Students
Start with the topics worth the most marks, then write full practice exams under the real time limit.
Practise itParents
Put the dates on the family calendar. The Parent Dashboard shows each practice exam’s result and the skills that need another look.
See the Parent DashboardEducators
The topic weights and the official practice above make a review plan. Students can practise each skill on its own in MapleMind, free with daily limits.
For schools
Questions about this exam
When is the Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment in 2026–27?
The next sitting is May 25 to May 31, 2027.
How long is the Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment?
It takes 1 hour in all, over 1 part.
How many questions are on the Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment?
It has 30 marked questions.
Can you use a calculator on the Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment?
No. Calculators aren’t allowed.
How are Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment results reported?
At 3 levels: Below Appropriate Achievement, Appropriate Achievement and Strong Achievement.
Where can I find practice tests for the Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment?
New Brunswick publishes G5 Mathematics Assessment Practice (online). MapleMind also builds a full practice exam in its format, free with an account.
Practise for the Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment
Every skill on the Grade 5 Mathematics Assessment, taught one at a time, then practised on questions written like the real ones.
