Fifth grade math can be daunting for students and parents alike.  Luckily, I'm on a mission to make 5th grade math MAKE SENSE to your child and to help your child have a little fun along the way.  I enjoy building relationships with my students and use a multi-sensory approach in my lessons, teaching with a lot of hands-on and visual activities.  Practice is necessary but shouldn't be boring, so I often use games and small group work (break out rooms) as ways for learners to gain confidence with new skills.  Classkick and Google Jamboard will be used in some classes as a way for students to independently or collaboratively practice a skill and allow me to provide students with feedback.  Blooket will be used in some classes to play games to practice new skills.  None of these programs require a log in, student account, or email address.

This fast-paced ongoing class is designed to cover all the standards/skills in the 5th grade math curriculum (as laid out by Common Core State Standards).  While using CCSS as a guide to make the course more universal, the class will focus on the standards, not necessarily the strategies (unless they are helpful in building a conceptual understanding of the skill).  Each class will focus on a specific skill and learners will be provided with follow up materials (worksheets or online resources) for extra practice.  I am happy to provide feedback for follow up assignments but due to the drop-in nature of ongoing classes, questions will need to be addressed through learner messages, not in the next class. There will be no formal assessments/grades given.  Parents should determine mastery based on how students do with their independent work/follow up assignments.  Class materials will be created by me or copyrighted materials which I have permission to share.

If you have a question about whether your child is ready for a specific skill, please message me to ask what the pre-requisite knowledge is as there will not be time to do an in-depth review the fourth grade standards.  

The course is split into four quarters with breaks for major holidays.  Below is the schedule of skills to be taught. Adjustments may need to be made based on holidays and other schedule conflicts.

QUARTER 1 – Place Value & Number Operations – 8 weeks
Sept 5 – Lesson 1: Place value with powers of 10
Sept 13 – Lesson 2: Decimals to the thousandth in expanded form
Sept 19 – Lesson 3: Compare decimals
Sept 26 – Lesson 4: Round decimals
Oct 3 – Lesson 5: Add and subtract decimals (minor skill focus: perimeter)
Oct 10 – Lesson 6: Number patterns
Oct 17 – Lesson 7: Prime vs. composite numbers & divisibility rules
Oct 24 – Lesson 8: Write and evaluate expressions
Oct 31 - NO CLASS

QUARTER 2 – Number Operations – 8 weeks
Nov 7 – Lesson 9: Multiply by a 1-digit factor using standard algorithm
Nov 14 – Lesson 10: Multiply by a 2-digit factor using standard algorithm
Nov 21 – Lesson 11: Understand multiplying decimals (using an area model)
Nov 28 – NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 5 – Lesson 12: Multiply decimals using standard algorithm
Dec 12 – Lesson 13: Divide by a 1-digit divisor using traditional long division
Dec 19 – Lesson 14: Divide by a 2-digit divisor using traditional long division
Dec 26 – NO CLASS - WINTER BREAK
Jan 2 – Lesson 15: Divide decimals by whole number divisors
Jan 9 – Lesson 16: Divide decimals by decimal divisors

QUARTER 3 – Fraction Operations – 11 weeks
Jan 16 – Equivalent fractions, converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers
Jan 23– Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
Jan 30 – Add and subtract mixed numbers
Feb 6 – Fractions as division
Feb 13 – Multiply fractions by whole numbers
Feb 20 – Multiply fractions by fractions
Feb 27 – Multiplying mixed numbers (minor skill focuses: scaling and area)
Mar 6 – Divide a fraction by a whole number
Mar 13 – Divide a whole number by a fraction
Mar 20 – Solve dividing fraction word problems
Mar 27 – Solve fraction word problems (mixed review of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)

QUARTER 4 – Measurement, Data & Geometry – 9 weeks
Apr 3 – Create and interpret line plots
Apr 10 – Convert measurements (customary and metric)
Apr 17 – NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
Apr 24 – Understand volume using unit cubes
May 1 – Find volume using a formula
May 8 – Volume of composite figures
May 15 – Plot points on a coordinate plane to show location
May 22 – Graph on a coordinate plane to show relationships
May 29 – Classify 2-dimensional shapes (focus: quadrilaterals)
Jun 5 – Classify 2-dimensional shapes (focus: triangles and other polygons)

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