5th Grade Goals

  

Term 1 September-November

Topic 1:Understand Place Value 

• Students will review basic facts and place value patterns
• Students will understand a digits decimal place value 
• Students will compare and order whole numbers and decimals through the thousandths 
• Students will use place value to round decimals to different places

Topic 2: Use Models and Strategies to Add and Subtract Decimals 

• Students will learn more than one way to do mental calculation 
• Students will learn more than one way to estimate a sum or difference 
• Students will use decimal grids to help add and subtract decimals 
• Students will add and subtract multi-digit decimals to add multi digit whole numbers 

Topic 3: Fluently Multiply Multi-Digit Whole Numbers 

• Students will use place value patterns and mental math to write the product of a whole number
• Students will estimate products to solve mathematical problems and understand the value of numbers
• Students will use place value and standard algorithm to multiply multi-digit numbers by 1 digit numbers 
• Students will regroup, round to nearest 10, use compatible numbers to help solve multiplication 
• Students will use bar diagram and write equations to solve multi-step problems 

Topic 4:Use Models and Strategies to Multiply Decimals 

• Students will look for patterns, symbols, diagrams and words to help multiply 
• Students will estimate the product of a decimal and a whole number by using compatible numbers and rounding 
• Students will use place value models to represent multiplying a whole number and a decimal 
• Students will understand that multiplying decimals are similar to steps for multiplying whole numbers
• Students will use associate and commutative properties to break apart and multiply two decimals 

Topic 5: Use Models and Strategies to Divide Whole Numbers

• Students will use basic facts and patterns to solve division problems with dividends and divisors that are multiples of ten
• Students will use compatible numbers to estimate quotient
• Students will use place value and area models to solve division problems involving 3-digit dividends and 2 digit divisors

Topic 6: Use Models and Strategies to Divide Decimals 

• Students will use place value patterns to divide decimals by powers of 10
• Students will use rounding and compatible numbers to estimate quotients with decimals
• Students will use place value blocks, bills and coins, decimals grids, centimeter grid papers to help solve dividing decimals and whole numbers
• Students will understand the relationship between multiplication and division to divide a decimal by a decimal.

Term December -March

Topic 7: Use Equivalent Fractions to Add and Subtract Fractions

• Students can estimate sums and differences of fractions using benchmark fractions.
• Students can estimate sums and differences of mixed numbers.
• Students can identify and generate equivalent fractions.
• Students can add fractions with unlike denominators using visual models.
• Students can add fractions with unlike denominators.
• Students can add three or more fractions with unlike denominators.
• Students can subtract fractions with unlike denominators using visual models.
• Students can add mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators.
• Students can add or subtract fractions and mixed numbers to solve word problems.

Topic 8: Apply Understanding of Multiplication to Multiply Fractions

• Students can multiply unit fractions by whole numbers using models.
• Students can multiply fractions by whole numbers using arrays.
• Students can multiply fractions by whole numbers using input/output tables.
• Students can multiply two unit fractions using visual models.
• Students can multiply two fractions.
• Students can explain how fraction multiplication relates to area.
• Students can estimate products of mixed numbers.
• Students can multiply mixed numbers using area models.
• Students can multiply mixed numbers, fractions, and whole numbers.

Topic 9: Apply Understanding of Division to Divide fractions

• Students can understand fractions as division and apply this understanding to solve word problems.
• Students can divide whole numbers by unit fractions using visual models.
• Students can divide whole numbers by unit fractions.
• Students can divide unit fractions by whole numbers using visual models.
• Students can divide unit fractions by whole numbers.
• Students can solve word problems that involve dividing unit fractions and whole numbers.
• Students can solve word problems that require adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions and mixed numbers.

Topic 10: Represent and Interpret 

• Students can interpret line plots to understand and analyze data.
• Students can create line plots to represent sets of data.
• Students can create and interpret line plots that include fractional data.
• Students can interpret frequency charts and solve one-step problems using the information.

Topic 11: Understand Volume Concepts

• Students can find the volume of rectangular prisms made of unit cubes.
• Students can find the volume of irregular figures built from unit cubes.
• Students can determine the volume of cubes and rectangular prisms.
• Students can solve word problems involving the volume of rectangular prisms made of unit cubes.
• Students can find the volume of compound figures.
• Students can solve word problems involving the volume of cubes and rectangular prisms.

Topic 12: Convert Measurements

• Students can compare and convert customary units of length, volume, and weight, including conversions that involve fractions.
• Students can compare and convert metric units of length, volume, and weight, including conversions that involve decimals.
• Students can convert units of time.
• Students can solve multi-step word problems that involve customary unit conversions.
• Students can solve multi-step word problems that involve metric unit conversions.
• Students can solve multi-step word problems that require converting between customary or metric units.

Topic 13: Write and Interpret Numerical Expressions

• Students can apply the order of operations to numerical expressions with four or five terms.
• Students can identify and explain mistakes involving the order of operations.
• Students can write numerical expressions that include one operation.
• Students can write numerical expressions that include two operations.
• Students can write numerical expressions to represent word problems.
• Students can solve multi-step word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers.

Topic 14: Graphs Points on the Coordinate Plane

• Students can describe the parts and structure of a coordinate plane.
• Students can identify and describe objects placed on a coordinate plane.
• Students can graph points on a coordinate plane using ordered pairs.
• Students can graph points using information from a table.
• Students can use a rule to complete a table and graph the corresponding points.
• Students can analyze relationships shown on a graph and explain what they represent.

Topic 15: Analyze Patterns and Relationships

• Students can use a rule to complete a number pattern.
• Students can complete a table that represents a two‑variable relationship.
• Students can compare patterns to identify similarities and differences.
• Students can graph patterns using given rules.

Trimester 3 March to June

Topic 15: Analyze Patterns and Relationships

• Students can use a rule to complete a number pattern.
• Students can complete a table for a number pattern.
• Students can complete a table that represents a two‑variable relationship.
• Students can compare patterns to identify similarities and differences.
• Students can graph patterns using given rules.
• Students can find the rule from a table and apply it to solve word problems.

Topic 16: Geometric Measurement: Classify Two-Dimensional Figures

• Students can identify acute, obtuse, and right triangles.
• Students can identify scalene, isosceles, and equilateral triangles.
• Students can classify triangles based on their angles and side lengths.
• Students can name common quadrilaterals.
• Students can classify quadrilaterals using their defining attributes.
• Students can describe relationships among quadrilaterals.
• Students can identify how different quadrilaterals are related to one another.

 

	Reading Themes	Writing Genre	Dates
Module 1	Inventors at Work  (Persuasive Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Informational Text, Science Fiction/Fantasy)	Expository Essay	September-October
Module 2	What a Story (Informational Text, Fantasy/Adventure, Fiction/Fantasy, Play, Poetry)	Story	October-November
Module 3	Natural Disasters (Friendly Letter, Narrative Nonfiction, Media Video, Informational Text)	Persuasive Essay	December-January
Module 5	Project Earth (Informational Text, Persuasive Text, Play, Realistic Fiction)	Editorial	January-February
Module 7	Above, Below, and Beyond (Mini-Biographies, Informational Text, Autobiography, Narrative Nonfiction)	Research Report	February- March
Module 9	Unexpected, Unexplained (Informational Text, Mystery, Documentary Video)	Imaginative Story	March-May
Module 10	The Lives of Animals  (Informational Text, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry)	Letter	May-June
Module 12	Genre Study: Fiction  (Realistic Fiction, Play, Mystery)	Narrative Poem	June