5th Grade Math Curriculum

Number and Operations Base Ten: Whole Numbers

• Expanding understanding of Place Value to decimals
• Developing Multiplication and Division strategies
• Understand the base 10 number system and powers of 10
• Understand order of operations
• Understanding concepts of Volume and relate it to multiplication
• Including Problem Solving involving Volume

 Number and Operations: Fractions and Decimals

• Using equivalency to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
• Understanding the concept of multiplying fractions by fractions and fractions by whole numbers
• Interpreting multiplying fractions as scaling
• Dividing by a unit fraction and understanding that a fraction is a division problem
• Developing the concept of division of a unit fraction by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.
• Including Problem Solving involving fractional quantities
  

Decimals

• Comparing and Rounding Decimals
• Performing Operations with Decimals (+, -, *, /)

 Measurement and Data

• Making a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit
• Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system

 Geometry

• Classifying two dimensional geometric figures based on their properties
• Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems

 Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Representing algebraic thinking
• Analyze Patterns and relationships
• Write and interpret numerical expressions