The French Immersion program is great since learning a second (or more!) language is a great thing for kids, and opens up opportunities for travel, education and careers later on down the road. Part of that immersion is, obviously, time. Math is an area that really suffers due to this time crunch. Students in FI simply don't get the same time that students outside do. If a student is struggling with some concepts or math or has some gaps from previous years, it can be a struggle to make up that time.
Here are some ideas for working at home with your child to help address that time loss or to fill gaps. They are in order of use (as determined by me!).
Google Classroom - log in as your child and take a look at what's going on in class. They may have something turned in, but need some help on finishing it up or would benefit from a second look with one-to-one instruction. Obviously this is the best idea since it's what's happening right now in class and you would be helping them with something that has an assessment task or test coming up.
Khan Academy - this free site is amazing. The site has both video lessons explaining the concepts and questions for the kids to complete. It awards stars and points and stuff to help motivation. You should absolutely sign up with the student's HDSB account and you can work through the units that way. Let me know if you need help setting that up. You can start a grade or more behind if there are gaps to fill or use the search bar to target certain areas. The only downside is that it is not Ontario curriculum, but it does line up fairly well.
Gizmos at ExploreLearning - this site is paid for by the Ministry of Education and has math activities followed by questions. It is aligned directly with the Ontario curriculum and I choose the gizmos I want as we are working on that unit. I could always add one for your child if there was something specific you wanted to see
Math Antics - this youtube creator makes videos for math and they are really good. His math strategies are good and the production value is pretty good as well. Search his page for specifics, but I find his number sense videos to be especially good.
Often, the biggest issue for a grade 5 student comes down to number sense and their ability to work with numbers quickly. If this piece is lacking, it can slow down everything else and makes problem solving in any strand really difficuly. Often, students have strategies that have worked in previous grades, but they don't work anymore with the larger numbers. An example would be a problem like, "Sam picks up 5 leaves on his way to school each day and keeps them in his locker. At the end of the week, how many leaves are there?". A kid can use the counting by strategy to simply count 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 to get the answer. They don't really multiply at all. A grade 5 question might have 44 leaves per day over 17 days, and suddenly the idea of counting 44, 88... 17 times isn't so appealing.
So, this next list is to help build number sense specifically.
Multiplication video 1 - from mathantics
Multiplication video 2 - from mathantics
Multiplication Grand Prix - a math game that kids love - they need to answer multiplication questions to make the car go faster
Division Drag Race - the division version of the same game
Basketball Operations - you can choose any operation and easy/medium/hard
MJ's videos - here are videos on each of the operations that I put together myself. These are the strategies that I think have worked best in my decades teaching math, so they are the ones I teach!