5th Grade Math

In this engaging and comprehensive course, students will achieve mastery of the standard algorithms for multi-digit multiplication and division. After mastering these fundamental techniques, students will extend their understanding to solving problems involving multi-digit decimals.

The course enables students to deepen their knowledge and computational fluency in fractions and mixed number operations. Students will achieve proficiency in fraction addition and subtraction with unlike denominators and fraction multiplication and division.

As part of their journey, students will delve deeper into algebra fundamentals. This includes exploring negative numbers, constructing numerical expressions, an introduction to exponents, and further developing their understanding of number patterns.

Throughout the course, students will apply their mathematical understanding to various real-world scenarios, geometric contexts, and mathematical problems, reinforcing the practical application of the skills they have learned.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will have attained the necessary skills and knowledge to seamlessly progress to our Prealgebra course. This is a critical stepping stone towards our rigorous high-school math curriculum, setting students on a path toward mathematical confidence and success.

• Constructing and evaluating numerical expressions, including cases with multiple parentheses.
• Understanding and representing negative numbers on a number line, comparing negative numbers, and understanding absolute value.
• Mastery of multiplication involving single and multi-digit numbers.
• Proficiency in dividing whole numbers, including interpreting remainders and dividing by two-digit numbers using various strategies.
• Adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators, explaining these operations using concrete models, and solving related word problems.
• Mastery of fraction multiplication concepts, including multiplying mixed numbers.
• The ability to divide fractions by whole numbers and other fractions, understand and apply the concept of reciprocals, and solve related problems in context.
• Understand and apply the place value system with decimals, reading and writing decimals in various forms, comparing and rounding decimals, and understanding significant figures.
• The capability to estimate, add, and subtract decimals, including handling unequal numbers of decimals.
• Multiply and divide decimals using various strategies, including the standard algorithms.
• Estimate products and quotients in decimal multiplication and division problems.
• Understand exponents, and evaluate expressions containing exponents with whole number, fractional, and decimal bases.
• Convert units of measurement within the metric and customary systems.
• Represent and interpret data using line plots and fractions.
• Understand and use coordinates to solve real-world problems and represent locations on maps.
• Identify, describe, and compare number patterns and relationships in data.
• Calculate the volume of right rectangular prisms using unit cubes and formulas, and solve real-world problems involving volume and classification of 2D shapes.
• Classify quadrilaterals according to a hierarchical structure.