National 5

Your first port of call for resources and support should be the Microsoft Team that has been set up by your class teacher.

Below are some video resources, written notes and past paper questions.  When using video resources be sure to watch actively; take notes, pause the video and attempt questions you think you can do without an example and rewind bits you’re unsure of.

Whole Course Notes

National 5 Course Notes

Video Resources

Percentages

Fractions

Pythagoras’ Theorem

Trigonometry (SOH CAH TOA)

Similar Shapes

Angles in Polygons

Circle Geometry

Expanding Brackets 1   2

Factorising: common factor  difference of 2 squares  quadratics 1 quadratics 2

Completing the square

Gradient

Arcs and sectors

Volume: prism  cone  pyramid  sphere

Equation of a line

Statistics

Equations and inequalities

Simultaneous equations

Changing the subject of a formula

Area of a triangle using trig

Using the Sine and Cosine Rules

Vectors

Surds and Indices

Algebraic fractions

Functions

Quadratics 1  2  3  4  5

Trigonometric graphs

Trigonometric equations

Sample Papers

N5 practice paper A    N5 paper A Answers

N5 practice paper B    N5 paper B Answers

N5 practice paper C    N5 paper C Answers

N5 practice paper D    N5 paper D Answers

N5 practice paper E    N5 paper E Answers

N5 practice paper F    N5 paper F Answers

Questions by topic

You can find past paper questions arranged by topic and much more at the National 5 Mathematics website.