5th Grade Math News:

This year math is jumping into the Common Core Standards.  There are five different strands that drive the learning. 

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Write and interpret numerical expressions.
• Analyze patterns and relationships.

Number and Operations in Base Ten

• Understand the place value system.
• Perform operations with multi-digit whole
numbers and with decimals to hundredths.

Number and Operations—Fractions
• Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add
and subtract fractions.
• Apply and extend previous understandings
of multiplication and division to multiply and
divide fractions.

Measurement and Data
• Convert like measurement units within a given
measurement system.
• Represent and interpret data.
• Geometric measurement: understand concepts
of volume and relate volume to multiplication
and to addition.

Geometry
• Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve
real-world and mathematical problems.
• Classify two-dimensional figures into categories
based on their properties.