Math
The Common Core State Standards will challenge your child in math this year. We will be using Eureka Math and other tools and programs, to take him/her to the higher levels of thinking expected in the Common Core. Your child will learn things this year that you didn’t learn when you were in fifth grade. The critical areas of focus for this year include:
adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions
using 2-digit divisors to divide
adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals to the hundredths place
volume
Daily Math Routine
Whole Class Mini-Lesson
We will start each day with a mini-lesson based on the new skill being learned. During this mini-lesson students will take notes so they have something to refer back to when they are working on their homework.
Teacher-led Small Groups
Students will work with their teacher to complete the problem set, either together or more independently with frequent check-ins for understanding.
Independent Work Time
During this time, students will be using Khan Academy to build their math skills. They should work on assignments that have been assigned to them. Those assignments directly connect to what we are learning in class. They also will be working on Fact Fluency in MobyMax or other differentiated materials provided to them.
At least one of the 8 Mathematical Practices will be incorporated into each day’s lesson. The 8 Mathematical Practices are:
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with math.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity and repeated reasoning.
