Academics · Grade 5
Math 5
Fifth graders take on long division, decimals, and the models that make a word problem tractable.
Course overview
- Homework: 45 minutes a week
- Prerequisite: Math 4, or placement
What you’ll learn
Mental Math
Groups of ten, multiplying and dividing by tens and hundreds, remainders on sight, and adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals in the head.
Skill Builder
Rounding and place value, first exponents, long division by partial quotients with one- and two-digit divisors, and estimating quotients.
Problem Solving
Palindromes and place-value puzzles, the box method, comparison and before-and-after models, and multi-step problems that need a model to hold them.
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