5th Grade Concept Overview

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