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What is happening in Fifth Grade? 

The Major Work in Fifth Grade Mathematics: 
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
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.

Parent Road Map
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You can learn about what mathematical ideas your child is working on by exploring the resources found in each of the nine weeks below. You will find video clips, examples of student work, and games/activities to try at home!

Fifth Grade Unpacking Document
Major Work Standards
Fifth Grade Video Discussions

Fifth Grade Parent Information from NCDPI

First Quarter
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During the first quarter, fifth graders will focus on computational fluency in addition and subtraction, the structure of place value, and the base-ten number system. An emphasis on reasoning about the magnitude of numbers and the base-ten structure with whole numbers will support later work with fractions and decimals. They will then focus on the operations of multiplication and division, building computational fluency and solidifying their use of strategies such as making equivalent problems which will also support later work with fractions and decimals. Fifth graders will solidify multiplication with the standard algorithm. During the last part of the quarter, They will develop an understanding of volume and relate volume to multiplication and addition. 

Videos
     Finding Volume with Unit Cubes
     Partial Products Multiplication
Online Games
     Pan Balance- Expressions
     Pan Balance- Numbers
     Factor Game
Games 
      Multiplication Compare
      Compare Cards
Books to Read
       The King's Chessboard
       A Grain of Rice
 Student Work Samples



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Second Quarter
During the second nine weeks, your fifth graders will focus on the major work of fractions. Your child's learning will begin with experiences that develop relationships between decimals and fractions.The work of equivalent fractions from first grade will continue as students develop fluency for adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators ( See example below). Area models, clock models, bar diagrams and number lines will be used as representations that support the conceptual understanding. The array model (see graphic below) will be used to develop an understanding of the result of multiplying two fractions or two mixed numbers. In fifth, grade students will divide a unit fraction by whole number or a whole number by a unit fraction ( 5 divided by 1/3 or 1/3 divided by 5). This work is grounded in word problems and representations.As your fifth graders work on applying and extending previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions, they strengthen the ideas of fractions as numbers.  

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Third Quarter
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Fourth Quarter
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Solution Strategies
Addition and Subtraction
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Multiplication and Division
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