What Math do Students Learn? Fifth Grade

1. What Math do Students Learn? Fifth Grade

2. Focus on Understanding This year students will be learning the Mathematics Florida Standards (MAFS). One of the most important things about the standards is that students need to DEEPLY understand math concepts.

3. Critical Areas The MAFS have Critical Areas for each grade level, these are the main focus of math instruction. For Fifth Grade, these are: • Developing fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions, and developing understanding of the multiplication of fractions and of division of fractions in limited cases (unit fractions divided by whole numbers and whole numbers divided by unit fractions) • Extending division to 2-digit divisors, integrating decimal fractions into the place value system and developing understanding of operations with decimals to hundredths, and developing fluency with whole number and decimal operations • Developing understanding of volume • Using grade-level appropriate Mathematical Practices

4. This is HOW students will be learning about the content.

5. Report Card The most important standards for Fifth Grade are evaluated on the report card: • *Demonstrates understanding of the place value system for whole numbers and decimals • *Fluently multiplies andmodels division • *Adds, subtracts, and multiplies fractionsand decimals, divides fractions and whole numbers, and divides decimals • Interprets expressions and analyzes numerical patterns • *Converts units and finds volume of figures • Solves problems about line plots with fractions • Graphs points on the coordinate plane to solve problems and classifies 2-D shapes into categories • *Uses grade-level appropriate mathematical practices *Denotes critical Power Standard for the grade level.

6. Investigations To help build a deep understanding, we will be spending the majority of our time working with Investigations in Number, Data, and Space.

7. Investigations in Class In school, students: • investigate problems • work in collaborative groups • use various strategies • communicate thinking orally and in writing • play educational games

8. Investigations at Home At home, students may be asked to: • practice an activity or game from class • collect some information to be used in class • solve a few problems and explain how they solved the problems • solve problems in more than one way

9. Helping at Home You can help your child by: • reading all of the Family Letters that are sent home • helping your child find a place at home to keep game materials and directions that are sent home • playing the games together that are sent home

10. Helping at Home • asking your child questions when they are stuck rather than giving them an answer • “What do you need to find out?” • “How can you get started?” • “Have you done anything like this in school?” • keeping a positive attitude about math

11. Helping at Home Online Student and Parent access to math software and Student Math Handbook

12. Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) • Students in 5th grade will take the Math FSA towards the end of the school year. • FSA will test students’ understanding of the MAFS. • The questions on FSA expect students to deeply understand concepts. • 5th Grade Math will be taken on the computer again this year. The students did a great job testing on the computer last year! • http://fsassessments.org/

13. FSA Sample 5th Grade Question

14. Parent Resources Visit the District website’s Elementary Math page for more information about the Fifth Grade standards, our math program, and how you can assist your child: http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/math/mcE.htm Visit the Investigations website for games and activities to play online: http://investigations.terc.edu/families/doing_math/games_index/