Our analysis of the Colorado Academic Standards provides:
Transfer Goals to inform your unit goals. Transfer Goals establish the purpose and relevance to the learning. They enable learners to transfer learning to new contexts/situations and promote more robust thinking activities.
Essential Understandings to inform your long-term learning targets. These identify the important ideas and core processes that are central to the discipline. Essential understandings synthesize what students should understand, not just know and do.
The "Know and Be Able to" sections tell us what students will understand in regard to content (know) and how students will apply this information (be able to).
Grade Level Expectation: Understand the place value system.
Evidence Outcomes:
Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left. (CCSS: 5.NBT.A.1)
Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole- number exponents to denote powers of
10. (CCSS: 5.NBT.A.2)
Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths. (CCSS: 5.NBT.A.3) Read and write decimals to thousandths using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form, e.g., 347.392 = 3 x 100 + 4 × 10 + 7 x 1 + 3 x 1/10 + 9 x 1/100 + 2 x 1/1000. (CCSS: 5.NBT.A.3.a) Compare two decimals to thousandths based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons. (CCSS: 5.NBT.A.3.b)
Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place. (CCSS: 5.NBT.A.4)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Understand patterns within the place value system
Use place value understanding to round numbers to any place in new contexts.
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
The relationship between numbers such as 25, 2.5 and 0.25
How fractions represent decimal place value
Place value reasoning with whole numbers to decimals
Place value is not just making tens with greater place value but making tenths with lesser place values
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: decimal, tenths, hundredths, thousandths, digit, value,
Decimal place value to the thousandths
A digit in one place value is 10 times greater than what it represents in the place to its right
A digit in a place value is 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left
How to read and write numbers to the thousandths place using standard form, word form, unit form, and expanded form
powers of 10
Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of ten
Use place value to round numbers to any place (decimals and whole numbers)
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Show visually and with an equation the relationship between numbers like 25, 2.5 and 0.25
Compare two decimals to thousandths (>, <, =)
Round decimals to any place
read and write numbers to the thousandths place using standard form, word form, unit form , and expanded form
Explain and connect patterns in the number of zeros in a product when multiplying powers of 10
Justify and use reasoning to support mathematical claims
Describe placement of a decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10
Grade Level Expectation: Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
Evidence Outcomes:
Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm. (CCSS: 5.NBT.B.5)
Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division.
Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models. (CCSS: 5.NBT.B.6)
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. (CCSS: 5.NBT.B.7)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Examine and apply a variety of strategies to accurately and effectively solve problems
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Operations of multi-digit whole number and decimals to hundredths to solve problems
Calculations are based on properties of operations, equations, drawings/arrays, or other models.
Place value structure helps to compute with whole numbers and decimals
Relationships between and within operations
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: algorithm, addend, sum, difference, factor, products, array, commutative, associative, distributive, quotient, divisor, dividend
How to estimate to check for reasonableness
How to multiply multi-digit whole numbers with the standard algorithm
Use strategies to divide whole numbers with up to 4 digit dividends and two-digit divisors
Use strategies to add and subtract decimals to the hundredths
Use strategies to multiply and divide decimals to the hundredths
Relationship between operations
Properties of operations
Commutative
Associative
Distributive
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers with the standard algorithm
Divide whole numbers with up to 4 digit dividends and two-digit divisors using a strategy to accurately and efficiently solve problems
Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to hundredths using strategies to accurately and efficiently solve problems
Estimate and assess the reasonableness of answers
Justify and using reading to support mathematical claims
Grade Level Expectation: Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
Evidence Outcomes:
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators. For example, 2/3 + \5/4} = 8/12 + 5/12 = 23/12. (In general, a/b + c/d = ad +bc/bd.) (CCSS: 5.NF.A.1)
Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole, including cases of unlike denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. Use benchmark fractions and number sense of fractions to estimate mentally and assess the reasonableness of answers. For example, recognize an incorrect result 2/5 + 1/2 = 3/7, by observing that 3/7 < 1/2. (CCSS: 5.NF.A.2)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Examine and apply the use of equivalent fractions to accurately and effectively solve addition and subtraction of fractions
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
The reasonableness of fraction calculations by estimating results using benchmark fractions and number sense.
The structure in the multiplicative relationship between unlike denominators when creating equivalent fractions.
Equivalent fractions are a strategy to add and subtract fractions
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: fraction, numerator, denominator, sum, difference, mixed number,
What equivalent fractions are
Steps to create equivalent fractions
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators using equivalent fractions
Use benchmark fractions to estimate sums and differences of fraction problems
Use visual fraction models or equations to represent a problem
How to estimate with fractions
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Create equivalent fractions
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions including unlike denominators
Estimate and assess th reasonableness of answers
Justify and using reading to support mathematical claims
Grade Level Expectation: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division.
Evidence Outcomes:
Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b). Solve word problems involving division of whole numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. For example, interpret 3/4 as the result of dividing 3 by 4, noting that 3/4} multiplied by 4 equals 3, and that when 3 wholes are shared equally among 4 people each person has a share of size 3/4. If 9 people want to share a 50-pound sack of rice equally by weight, how many pounds of rice should each person get? Between what two whole numbers does your answer lie? (CCSS: 5.NF.B.3)
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction. (CCSS: 5.NF.B.4) Interpret the product a/b x q as a parts of a partition of q into b equal parts; equivalently, as the result of a sequence of operations a x q ÷ b. For example, use a visual fraction model to show 2/3 x 4 = 8/3, and create a story context for this equation. Do the same with 2/3 x 4/5= 8/15. (In general, a/b x c/d = ac/bd.) (CCSS: 5.NF.B.4.a) Find the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths by tiling it with unit squares of the appropriate unit fraction side lengths, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths. Multiply fractional side lengths to find areas of rectangles, and represent fraction products as rectangular areas. (CCSS: 5.NF.B.4.b)
Interpret multiplication as scaling (resizing), by: (CCSS: 5.NF.B.5) Comparing the size of a product to the size of one factor on the basis of the size of the other factor, without performing the indicated multiplication. (CCSS: 5.NF.B.5.a) Explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number (recognizing multiplication by whole numbers greater than 1 as a familiar case); explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number; and relating the principle of fraction equivalence a/b = nxa/nxb to the effect of multiplying a/b by 1. (CCSS: 5.NF.B.5.b)
Solve real-world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. (CCSS: 5.NF.B.6)
Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions. (Students able to multiply fractions in general can develop strategies to divide fractions in general, by reasoning about the relationship between multiplication and division. But division of a fraction by a fraction is not a requirement at this grade.) (CCSS: 5.NF.B.7) Interpret division of a unit fraction by a non-zero whole number, and compute such quotients. For example, create a story context for 1/3 ÷ 4, and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient. Use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that 1/3 ÷ 4 = 1/12 because 1/12 x 4 = 1/3. (CCSS: 5.NF.B.7.a) Interpret division of a whole number by a unit fraction, and compute such quotients. For example, create a story context for 4 ÷ 1/5, and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient. Use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that 4 ÷ 1/5 = 20 because 20 x 1/5= 4. (CCSS: 5.NF.B.7.b) Solve real-world problems involving division of unit fractions by non-zero whole numbers and division of whole numbers by unit fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem. For example, how much chocolate will each person get if 3 people share 1/2 lb. of chocolate equally? How many 1/3-cup servings are in 2 cups of raisins? (CCSS: 5.NF.B.7.c)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division
Examine and apply a variety of strategies to accurately and effectively solve problems with fractions
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
How to solve problems requiring calculations that scale whole numbers and fractions
Fraction models and arrays to interpret and explain fraction calculations
The underlying unit quantities when solving problems involving multiplication and division of fractions
Multiplying fractions by a whole number greater than 1 can result in a product less than the whole number
Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: fraction, numerator, denominator, unit fraction, equivalent, mixed number, product, scaling
How to rewrite a fraction such as 5/ 3 as an addition equation
How to rewrite a fraction 5/3 as a multiplication equation
Understand that (𝑎/𝑏 = 𝑎 ÷ b)
How to solve word problems involving division of whole numbers with answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers
Find the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths by tiling it with unit squares and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths
Multiply fractional side lengths to find areas of rectangles, and represent fraction products as rectangular areas.
Interpret multiplication as scaling
Multiply fractions and mixed numbers
Divide unit fractions by whole numbers
Divide whole numbers by unit fractions
How to use visual fraction models and equations to represent and solve problems
How to estimate to check for reasonableness
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator
multiply a fraction by a fraction of a whole number by a fraction
Explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction greater than 1 results in a product greater than the given number (recognizing multiplication by whole numbers greater than 1 as a familiar case); explaining why multiplying a given number by a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number
Solve real-world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers, and division of unit fractions by whole numbers, and division of the whole number by unit fractions
Justify and using reading to support mathematical claims
Grade Level Expectation: Write and interpret numerical expressions.
Evidence Outcomes:
Use grouping symbols (parentheses, brackets, or braces) in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols. (CCSS: 5.OA.A.1)
Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them. For example, express the calculation “add 8 and 7, then multiply by 2” as 2 x (8 + 70. Recognize that 3 x (18932 + 921) is three times as large as 18932 + 921, without having to calculate the indicated sum or product. (CCSS: 5.OA.A.2)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Write and interpret numerical expressions
Based on an understanding of any problem, initiate a plan, execute it, and evaluate the reasonableness of the solution
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Expressions represent mathematical relationships between quantities
Apply an understanding of structures that make the order of operations clear when reading and writing mathematical expressions
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic Vocabulary: variable, expressions
The communicative property and which operations it applies and does not
The associative property and which operation it applies and does not
The distributive property and which operation it applies and does not
The “order of operations” math uses and why it’s needed
What PEMDAS means
letters represent unknown variables (These letters are actually numbers in disguise)
Ways to write multiplication
a x b
a ᐧ b
a*b
(a) (b)
a (b)
(a) b
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Use grouping symbols(parentheses, brackets, or braces)/ PEMDAS in numerical expressions
Evaluate expressions using grouping symbols/PEMDAS
Write simple expressions
Interpret numerical expressions without evaluating
Justify and using reading to support mathematical claims
Grade Level Expectation: Analyze patterns and relationships.
Evidence Outcomes:
Generate two numerical patterns using two given rules. Identify apparent relationships between corresponding terms. Form ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from the two patterns, and graph the ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. For example, given the rule “Add 3” and the starting number 0, and given the rule “Add 6” and the starting number 0, generate terms in the resulting sequences, and observe that the terms in one sequence are twice the corresponding terms in the other sequence. Explain informally why this is so. (CCSS: 5.OA.B.3)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Analyze patterns and relationships
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Analyzing and comparing patterns
Reasoning quantitatively with patterns by relating sequences of numbers with the rule that generated them
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
How to generate patterns using given rules
Corresponding terms
Ordered pairs
How to form ordered pairs
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Graph corresponding terms formed by two numerical rules
Generate two numerical patterns using two given rules
Form ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from two patterns
Graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane
Explain patterns and mathematical relationships in/with patterns
Justify and using reading to support mathematical claims
Grade Level Expectation: Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
Evidence Outcomes:
Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real-world problems. (CCSS: 5.MD.A.1)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Convert measurements to solve real-world problems
Use appropriate tools to deepen understanding of mathematical concepts
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Convert like measurements units within a given measurement system
Use appropriate precision when converting measurements based on a problem's context
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
How to convert from larger to smaller units within a system(US Customary and Metric)
How to convert from smaller units to larger units within a system(US Customary and Metric)
How to convert from larger to smaller units across systems(US Customary and Metric)
How to convert from smaller units to larger units across systems(US Customary and Metric)
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Convert larger units to small units within and across systems(US Customary and Metric)
Convert small units to larger units within and across systems(US Customary and Metric)
Use conversions to solve multi-step real-world problems
Justify and using reading to support mathematical claims
Grade Level Expectation: Represent and interpret data.
Evidence Outcomes:
Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Use operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in line plots. For example, given different measurements of liquid in identical beakers, find the amount of liquid each beaker would contain if the total amount in all the beakers were redistributed equally. (CCSS: 5.MD.B.2)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Represent and interpret data
Analyze data to seek out patterns and/or make predictions
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Line plots with fractional measurement data
Measurement data presented in line plots to participate in a discussion about the data
Scaling of line plots to represent fractional measurements
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Structure of a line plot
How to create line plots
Fractional measurements
Why it's helpful to organize data in line plots
Establishing the whole when plotting fractions on a number line
How labels help the reader determine importance and understand data
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Make a line plot to display data sets of measurements in fractions of a unit
Solve problems involving operations of fractions by using information presented in line plots
Justify and reason to support claims as a mathematician
Grade Level Expectation: Understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition
Evidence Outcomes:
Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement. (CCSS: 5.MD.C.3)A cube with side length 1 unit, called a “unit cube,” is said to have “one cubic unit” of volume and can be used to measure volume. (CCSS: 5.MD.C.3.a) A solid figure which can be packed without gaps or overlaps using n unit cubes is said to have a volume of n cubic units. (CCSS: 5.MD.C.3.b)
Measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft., and improvised units. (CCSS: 5.MD.C.4)
Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume. (CCSS: 5.MD.C.5) Model the volume of a right rectangular prism with whole-number side lengths by packing it with unit cubes, and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths, equivalently by multiplying the height by the area of the base. Represent threefold whole-number products as volumes, e.g., to represent the associative property of multiplication. (CCSS: 5.MD.C.5.a) Apply the formulas V = I x w x h and V = b x h for rectangular prisms to find volumes of right rectangular prisms with whole-number edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems. (CCSS: 5.MD.C.5.b) Use the additive nature of volume to find volumes of solid figures composed of two non-overlapping right rectangular prisms by adding the volumes of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real-world problems. (CCSS: 5.MD.C.5.c)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and addition
Examine and apply a variety of strategies to accurately and efficiently solve problems
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Real-world problems involving volume
Connections between the values being multiplied in a volume formula, the concept of cubic units, and the context within which volume is being calculated
The structure of two-dimensional space and the relationship between arrays and area to three-dimensional space and the relationship between layers of cubes and volume
Concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and addition
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic vocabulary: volume, rectangular prism
Volume is an attribute of solid figures
How volume and area are related
A cube with a side length of 1 unit is a “unit cube” and can be used to measure the volume
Associative property of multiplication
Volume as an operation of multiplication and addition
Model volume of right rectangular prisms by packing it with unit cubes and make connections to multiplying edge lengths equivalently (V=l x w x h)or multiplying the height by the area of the base (V=b x h)
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Measure volumes using unit cubes
Cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, and improvised units(water in a fish tank, sand in a box)
Apply the formulas V=l x w x h and V=b x h for rectangular prisms with whole number edge lengths
Solve real-world problems involving volume
Grade Level Expectation: Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Evidence Outcomes:
Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates.
Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate). (CCSS: 5.G.A.1)
Represent real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation. (CCSS: 5.G.A.2)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Information presented visually in a coordinate plane
The first quadrant of the coordinate plane is a tool to represent, analyze, and solve problems
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Academic vocabulary: coordinate plane, axes, ordered pairs, quadrant
Define a coordinate plane(system)
Definition of axes(x, y)
Ordered pairs
Plot ordered pairs
Identify a location on a coordinate plane(first quadrant) using ordered pairs
Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis(x), and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis(y)
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Represent real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.
Explain what things in the real world are designed like a coordinate plane or that use a coordinate system
Grade Level Expectation: Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
Evidence Outcomes:
Explain that attributes belonging to a category of two-dimensional figures also belong to all subcategories of that category. For example, all rectangles have four right angles and squares are rectangles, so all squares have four right angles. (CCSS: 5.G.B.3)
Classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on properties. (CCSS: 5.G.B.4)
Transfer Goals: Based on the Evidence Outcomes, what will students transfer to new contexts/situations?
Categorizing enables the comparison of properties to identify two-dimensional figures
Essential Understandings: In order to meet these transfer goals, the essential ideas and core processes students must understand are...
Attributes of two-dimensional figures to classify them
Measurement tools help improve the classification of shapes
Attributes of two-dimensional shapes to classify the shapes in a hierarchy of figures
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must know...
Definition of two-dimensional figures
Properties and attributes of two-dimensional figures
In order to meet these essential understandings, students must be able to...
Explain that attributes belonging to a category of two-dimensional figures also belong to all subcategories of that category
Classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on properties.
Use the words “always,” “sometimes,” and “never” to develop a classification of two-dimensional figures