Students who are in the Advanced 5th grade Math class will move through the 5th grade curriculum that was not started in Advanced 4th grade and then move on to all of the 6th grade curriculum. This is a very fast paced class. Students will take the 6th grade AIR test at the end of the year. This class prepares students to move on the Advanced Applications in 6th grade, which covers 7th and 8th grade curriculum.
Students will spend approximately the first half of the school year on 5th grade curriculum (where they will use the Bridges Math/Number Corner program, and the second half of the year on 6th grade curriculum (where they will begin using the CPM Math materials).
5th grade: Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 Unit 6 Unit 7 Unit 8
Click the link on the Unit above to find detailed information about each unit, including tips on how to help your child at home. (Unit 1 and Unit 2 are completed in Advanced 4th gr math, but briefly reviewed at the beginning of the year.)
In grade 5 math, your child will:
- use models and strategies to divide 2- and 3-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers, with and without remainders. (Students are not expected to use the standard long division algorithm until sixth grade.)
- add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
- multiply fractions and divide fractions in simple cases
- measure volume
- explain patterns in the number of zeros and the placement of the decimal point in the answer when multiplying or dividing by powers of 10
- read, write, round, compare, add & subtract, multiply & divide decimals
- multiply multi-digit whole numbers
- locate and graph points on a coordinate plane
6th grade
Core Connections, Course 1 is the first of a three-year sequence of courses designed to prepare students for a rigorous college preparatory algebra course. On a daily basis, students in Core Connections, Course 1 use problem-solving strategies, questioning, investigating, analyzing critically, gathering and constructing evidence, and communicating rigorous arguments justifying their thinking. Students learn in collaboration with others while sharing information, expertise, and ideas. The course helps students to develop multiple strategies to solve problems and to recognize the connections between concepts.
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Collect, organize, and display data in multiple ways.
- Analyze data using measures of central tendency.
- Represent data sets using various methods and analyze how changes in data impact the representation.
- Represent and compare quantities using manipulatives, diagrams, and number expressions.
- Represent multiplication using rectangular arrays.
- Represent integers on number lines and with manipulatives.
- Make sense of multiple representations of portions (decimal, fraction, percent) and convert from one form to the other.
- Compare fractions and generate equivalent fractions.
- Recognize ratios in tables and graphs and solve corresponding problems.
- Use ratios to describe relationships with similar plane figures and other situations.
- Use models and standard algorithms for computations with fractions and decimals.
- Simplify variable expressions by combining like terms and using the Distributive Property.
- Evaluate variable expressions and solve simple equations and inequalities.
- Solve distance, rate, and time problems.
- Solve percent problems including those with discounts, interest, and tips.
- Compute area, surface area, and volume of rectangular solids.
- Represent solids using nets.
Link to Advanced 5th gr Curriculum Map