Math 5 Curriculum 2.0 

Quarter 1: Curriculum 2.0

Week 1Students identify, write, evaluate, and interpret numerical expressions. Students use parentheses to formulate expressions, including expressions that represent applications of the associative and distributive properties. This work is foundational for middle school in the content of Expressions and Equations, in which students work with variables and use the conventions for order of operations to interpret and evaluate expressions. 

Week 2

Students apply foundational understandings of properties of operations and the base-ten system to multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm. Building upon understandings developed in Grades 3 and 4, students use place value and properties of operations to explain computation with the standard algorithm. Students estimate products and reason about when the standard algorithm is the most efficient strategy for determining a product. It is expected that Grade 5 students who are fluent with their understanding of multiplication are flexible in their choice of strategies and can justify the efficiency of their choice. The standard algorithm becomes part of a repertoire of strategies and does not supplant other useful strategies, such as compensation. The expectation that Grade 5 students fluently compute products of whole numbers is revisited in marking periods 2 and 4 to allow time for all students to develop fluency.  Students can use the website www.Multiplication.com to practice their facts!

Weeks 3-4

Students develop understandings about measuring volume and relate volume to multiplication and division. Students recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures. Students learn how this measurement of space (i.e., cubic units) relates to measurements of area (i.e., square units) and length (i.e., linear units). Students measure volumes of rectangular prisms with whole number side lengths by filling them with layers of unit cubes; this helps them understand and apply formulas for the volume of a rectangular prism. Students recognize volume as additive and solve problems involving volumes of solid figures composed of non-overlapping rectangular prisms.