Fifth Grade Math with Confidence Instructor Guide
The Fifth Grade Math with Confidence Instructor Guide coordinates with two Student Workbooks.
- The Instructor Guide functions as the core of the program. It includes conversational and hands-on activities and games that teach the key skills and concepts.
- The two Student Workbooks (Part A and Part B ) provide lesson activities, practice, and review. Workbook Part A covers Units 1-8, and Workbook Part B covers Units 9-16.
Fifth Grade Math with Confidence covers everything your child needs to learn in fifth grade. Students learn…
- Understand place value to billions
- Use parentheses and the order of operations to evaluate expressions
- Multiply and divide multi-digit numbers (including multiplication up to three digits times three digits, and long division up to four digits divided by two digits)
- Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with different denominators
- Find fractions of sets and express parts of sets as fractions
- Multiply fractions and mixed numbers
- Solve simple fraction division problems and understand the concept of fraction division
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to the thousandths-place
- Solve word problems with fractions and decimals
- Use fractions and decimals to express and convert measurements
- Find the volume of rectangular prisms
- Graph points on the coordinate grid with positive coordinates
- Reason about the angles and sides of triangles and quadrilaterals
- Find the mean and median for a small data set
Author Kate Snow’s placement help for Fifth Grade Math with Confidence:
Children are ready to start Fifth Grade Math with Confidence if they can:
- Understand place value in numbers to 1,000,000.
- Name answers to the multiplication and division facts (up to 10×10 and 100÷10). They should be able to recall the answers to most within 3 seconds or so. It’s okay if the tricky 7s, 8s, or 9s still take a little longer.
- Solve multiplication problems with the traditional written process (up to four-digit
numbers times one-digit numbers or two-digit numbers times two-digit numbers). - Use long division to solve division problems (up to four-digit numbers divided by one-digit numbers).
- Find equivalent fractions and convert improper fractions to mixed numbers (and vice versa).
- Add and subtract fractions or mixed numbers with the same denominators.
- Read, write, and compare decimals to the hundredths place.
- Solve measurement problems and convert measurements within a system of measurement (for example, inches to feet, or kilograms to grams).
- Measure, compare, and reason about angles.
(Note that this is the bare minimum list of skills children should know before starting Fifth Grade Math with Confidence. It is not a full list of everything covered in Fourth Grade Math with Confidence.)
If your child is not fluent with the multiplication and division facts but knows the rest of the skills listed above, he/she is probably ready to begin Fifth Grade Math with Confidence. Make sure to add 5 minutes of daily multiplication fact or division fact practice to each lesson until your child becomes more fluent with the facts.
