What to do:

Games & Activities

Online

• Sheppard's Software

• Happy Numbers Website or App

• Splash Learn Website or App

Hands-on

• Puzzles to build analytical thinking and problem-solving

• Number hunts (looking for amounts of things in everyday life)

• LEGOs or Blocks with conversation about numbers

• Dice Games

  • Example: Roll three dice together and add the numbers together--highest total wins each round

• Number-based card games like Uno, Go Fish

• Math Board and Card Games:

  • Splat!

  • Math Island

  • Math Match Dice Game

  • Math Blast

What to watch

What are the big things 4th and 5th graders should be able to do in Math?

4th Grade

• More advanced multiplication

  • Example: 1002 x 3 or 22 x 23

•  Divide with a remainder

  • Example: a problem like 53/4 that does not come out to a perfect whole number

• Solve real-world inspired word problems that involve a combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

• Find factors (factor rainbow)

• Basic work with fractions & comparing decimals

5th Grade

• Numerical expressions with Parentheses, Exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction

  • Example: (2+2)/3

• Working with decimals

  • Example:

    • .2 +.13

    • .8 x 4

• Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators

  • Example: 2/3 + 1/6

• Multiply and divide fractions

  • Example: 1/4 x 2/3

• Measure volume

• Graph points on a coordinate plane