5th Grade Goals September-November
Math 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.