Fifth Grade Math

 

Standard 1:   The student uses numerical and computational concepts and procedures in a variety of situations.  

Benchmark 1: NUMBER SENSE - The student demonstrates number sense for rational numbers, pi, and simple algebraic expressions in one variable in a variety of situations.

Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. uses a variety of computational methods including mental arithmetic (doubles and neighbors), paper and pencil, concrete materials, or technological tools such as calculators and computers.

                     2. explains and performs whole number division and expresses remainders as a whole number or a fractional part; addition, subtraction and multiplication of decimals; addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers without regrouping and expresses answers in simplest form.

                     3. finds factors and multiples of whole numbers.

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

The student:

1.           uses arithmetic operations and inverse relationships to formulate and solve real-world problems involving selected rational  numbers.        

Standard 2:  The student uses algebraic concepts and procedures in a variety of situations.

Benchmark 1: PATTERNS - The student recognizes, describes, extends, develops, and explains the general rule of patterns from a variety of situations.

Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. identifies, states, and continues patterns presented in a variety of formats:  numeric, visual, oral, written, kinesthetic, pictorial, tabular, graphical, or listing.

                     2. recognizes patterns involving two changes.

                     3. creates a pattern.

                     Special Note: Working with various types of patterns is an important precursor to working with functions and sequences in middle school and high school.

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. generalizes a pattern using a written description.

                     2. recognizes the same general pattern presented in different representations. 

Benchmark 2: VARIABLES, EQUATIONS, AND INEQUALITIES - The student uses variables, symbols, rational numbers, and simple algebraic expressions in one variable to solve linear equations and inequalities in a variety of situations.

                     Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. explains and uses symbols to represent unknown quantities and variable relationships.

                     2. explains and uses the following symbols:  =, <, >, ≠, <,  >.

                     3. solves one-step linear equations involving one unknown.

                     4. solves one-step linear inequalities involving one unknown.

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. uses symbols, variables, inequalities, and equations to represent problems involving variable situations and unknown quantities.

                     2. formulates and solves problems involving linear relationships and unknown quantities.

Benchmark 3: FUNCTIONS - The student recognizes, describes, and examines constant and linear relationships in a variety situations.

                     Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. uses letters and symbols to describe whole number relationships.

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. converts between verbal, numerical, and graphical models or concrete materials used to describe mathematical relationships.

Benchmark 4: MODELS - The student develops and uses models to represent and justify mathematical relationships found in a variety of situations.

Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. uses mathematical models to represent and explain mathematical concepts and procedures.

                     2. creates mathematical models to show the relationship between two or more things.
      The student knows, explains, and uses mathematical models such as: the number line to model the relationship between rational numbers and rational number operations;                                   pictorial representation of addition, subtraction of rational number with regrouping;                                    equations and inequalities to model numerical relationships; manipulatives or pictures to model computational procedures; three-dimensional geometric models;                          graphs, tables, and charts to describe, interpret or analyze data;                               diagrams or pictures to model problem situations; and Venn diagrams to show the relationships between characteristics of two or more sets.

                     Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. recognizes that the same situation can be represented in more than one way.

                     2. explains why  some models are more useful than others in certain situations.

Standard 3:  The student uses geometric concepts and procedures in a variety of situations.

Benchmark 1: GEOMETRIC FIGURES AND THEIR PROPERTIES - The student recognizes, applies, and compares properties of geometric figures in a variety of situations.

Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

The student:

                     1. uses appropriate technology, manipulatives, or drawings to recognize and investigate properties of simple geometric figures.

                     2. recognizes and describes regular polygons having up to ten sides.

                     3. recognizes an ellipse.

                     4. recognizes, draws or describes points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles as right, obtuse or acute.

                     5. identifies and explains circumference, radius, and diameter.

                     6. identifies faces, edges, and bases on three dimensional objects.

                     7. recognizes perpendicular lines.

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

The student:

1. formulates and solves real-world problems by applying properties of geometric figures.

Benchmark 2: MEASUREMENT AND ESTIMATION - The student estimates, measures, and uses measurement formulas in a variety of situations.

                     Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. knows and uses area and perimeter formulas for rectangles and squares.

                     2. uses standard units of measurement to the nearest eighth and fourth inch, metric measurement to the nearest whole centimeter, meter, and kilometer, or nonstandard unit of measure to the nearest whole unit.

                     3. selects, explains the selection of, or uses measurement tools, units of measure and degrees of accuracy appropriate to the given situation.

                     4. performs conversions within the standard and metric measurement systems such as millimeters to centimeters.

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. formulates and solves real-world problems by applying measurements and measurement formulas.

                     2. uses estimation to check reasonableness of measurements and calculations.

                     3. adjusts original measurements based on additional information (estimation from a frame of reference).

                     4. uses map scales to measure distance between locations and makes simple scale drawings using grid paper.

Benchmark 3: TRANSFORMATIONAL GEOMETRY - The student recognizes and performs transformations of two-dimensional figures in a variety situations.

                     Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. recognizes, explains and performs up to two transformations on two-dimensional figures.

                     2. recognizes how pyramids, triangular prisms,  rectangular prisms, cylinders, cones, and spheres would appear from a variety of visual perspectives (top, bottom, side, and corners).

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. describes and draws two-dimensional shapes as they would appear after undergoing two                                               specified transformations without actually performing the transformations with concrete objects.

Benchmark 4: GEOMETRY FROM AN ALGEBRAIC PERSPECTIVE - The student  will analyze two-dimensional geometry using a coordinate system in a variety of situations.

                     Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. explains the relationships among fractions, whole numbers, and where they appear on a number line.

                     2. maps paths between locations and compares lengths of different paths on a coordinate grid.

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. uses coordinate grids to formulate and solve real-world problems involving distance and location.

Standard 4:  The student uses concepts and procedures of data analysis in a variety of situations.

Benchmark   1:           PROBABILITY - The student uses probability to generate convincing arguments, draw conclusions, and make decisions in a variety of situations.

                     Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. lists all possible outcomes of a single event in a clear and organized manner.

                     2. recognizes simple experiments where the probabilities of all outcomes are equal.

                     Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. conducts experiments and/or simulations, records the results in charts, tables or graphs, and uses the results to draw conclusions and make predictions.        

                     2. compares what should happen (theoretical/expected results) with what did happen (experimental/empirical results) in a simple experiment.

Benchmark    2:          STATISTICS - The student generates, organizes, and interprets rational number and other data in a variety of situations.  The student applies measures of central tendency when drawing conclusions from the data.

Fifth Grade Knowledge Base Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. organizes, reads, and displays numerical (quantitative) and non-numerical (qualitative) data in a clear, organized, and accurate manner including correct titles, labels, and intervals or categories.  Specific formats for the display of numerical and categorical data include: frequency distributions; stem-and-leaf plots; bar, line and circle graphs; Venn diagrams or other pictorial displays; and charts and tables.

                     2. conducts, and explains sampling techniques (observations, surveys, random sampling) for gathering data.

                     3. ranks the values of a numerical data set containing simple fractions and decimals, identifies maximum and minimum data values, and calculates the range for a data set.

                     4. calculates and explains the mean (average) for a whole number data set.

                     5. calculates and explains the median for a whole number data set containing an even number of data points.

                     6. determines and explains the mode(s).

Fifth Grade Application Indicators

                     The student:

                     1. uses data analysis to make accurate inferences, decisions/predictions, and to develop convincing arguments from data displayed in a variety of formats.  (see listing of graphical displays)

                     2. recognizes or explains the affects of scale and/or interval changes on graphs of whole number data sets.

                     3. recognizes that the same data set can be displayed in a variety of formats and discusses why a particular format may be more appropriate than another.

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