5th Grade Math
We use the Everyday Math Curriculum. Everyday Math is designed to build on topics previously learned throughout the grades. While we cover a variety of topics we spend most of our time covering Multiplication and Division, Fractions, Positive/Negative Numbers, and Geometry. We use differentiation to ensure students are being challenged at their level.
In Everyday Mathematics, students develop a broad background by learning concepts and skills in these six content strands. The fifth-grade program emphasizes the following content:
Number and Numeration
Recognizing place value in numerals for whole numbers and decimals; expressing numbers in scientific notation; finding factors of numbers; comparing properties of prime and composite numbers; representing rates and ratios with fraction notation.
Operations and Computation
Extending whole-number facts with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to fractions and decimals; evaluating symbolic expressions
Data and Chance
Collecting, organizing, and analyzing data using bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and stem-and-leaf plots
Measurement and Reference Frames
Using linear, area, capacity, and personal reference measures; locating items with reference to an origin or zero point, for example, original numbers, times of day, dates, and temperatures
Geometry
Investigating angles and rotations; calculating area and volume; drawing to scale; introducing relationships of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures; exploring new transformations that affect attributes of geometric shapes
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Determining divisibility; exploring number patterns; applying formulas to geometric figures; creating number models; working with scientific calculators; squaring and unsquaring numbers; exploring variables in formulas
In Everyday Mathematics, students develop a broad background by learning concepts and skills in these six content strands. The fifth-grade program emphasizes the following content:
Number and Numeration
Recognizing place value in numerals for whole numbers and decimals; expressing numbers in scientific notation; finding factors of numbers; comparing properties of prime and composite numbers; representing rates and ratios with fraction notation.
Operations and Computation
Extending whole-number facts with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to fractions and decimals; evaluating symbolic expressions
Data and Chance
Collecting, organizing, and analyzing data using bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and stem-and-leaf plots
Measurement and Reference Frames
Using linear, area, capacity, and personal reference measures; locating items with reference to an origin or zero point, for example, original numbers, times of day, dates, and temperatures
Geometry
Investigating angles and rotations; calculating area and volume; drawing to scale; introducing relationships of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures; exploring new transformations that affect attributes of geometric shapes
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Determining divisibility; exploring number patterns; applying formulas to geometric figures; creating number models; working with scientific calculators; squaring and unsquaring numbers; exploring variables in formulas