Fifth Grade Games

Getting Close is an engaging way for your child to reason about fractions and decimals. Players will flip up two game cards and estimate the sum of the two cards, then solve for the sum with accuracy. Players will play until all game cards have been used. The game is designed for students learning about fractions, but if younger players want to play, you can make your own cards with whole numbers.

Coordinate Plane Battleship is inspired by the traditional board game Battleship. Coordinate Plane Battleship is intended to engage students as they learn and recognize patterns in the coordinate plane system. Players will take turns calling coordinates to target their opponent’s ships. Once one player sinks all five of their opponent’s ships, they are crowned the winner for that round. Although children are introduced to the coordinate plane system in fifth grade, anyone can play. For students unfamiliar with the coordinate plane system, players may say “over three up two” to represent the ordered pair (2, 3). See the “Time to Play” section for additional details to adapt the game for different age levels.