Grade 5 Math Curriculum
Family-facing version of the grade 5 math curriculum
Quarterly Overview of Grade 5 Mathematics
The objectives and outcomes for each unit are common across FCPS and based on the Virginia Standards of Learning. The pacing by quarter and by week provides an example of how the curriculum can be organized throughout the year. Teacher teams may adjust the pacing or order of units to best meet the needs of students.
Units and Details
Students will:
- Formulate questions that require collecting or acquiring data.
- Determine the data needed to answer a question and collect the data.
- Organize and represent data using a line plot (dot plot) with a title, labeled axes, and a key.
- Organize and represent data using a stem-and-leaf plot with a title and key.
- Analyze data in line plots and stem-and-leaf plots and communicate results.
- Solve addition and subtraction problems using data from line plots and stem-and-leaf plots.
- Describe the mean as a fair share and determine the mean of a data set.
- Determine the median, mode, and range of a data set.
- Use measures of center and range to describe data.
Students will:
- Use the order of operations to simplify numerical expressions with whole numbers, including those with parentheses.
- Describe the steps to simplify a numerical expression using the order of operations.
- Use objects or drawings to show whether a number up to 100 is prime or composite and explain your reasoning.
- Compare and contrast numbers up to 100 as prime or composite.
- Find the prime factors of a number up to 100.
- Identify, describe, extend, and create increasing and decreasing patterns using objects, pictures, numbers, number lines, input/output tables, and function machines.
- Analyze patterns to identify the rule, extend the pattern, or find missing terms.
- Solve problems involving patterns using input and output rules.
- Understand a variable as a symbol representing an unknown quantity.
- Write an equation from a word problem using a variable for the unknown quantity.
- Use an expression with a variable to represent a verbal expression.
- Create and write a word problem to match a given equation with a variable.
Students will:
- Estimate the result of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
- Solve single-step and multi-step problems using strategies and algorithms for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, including those with remainders.
- Explain what the quotient and remainder represent in a division problem.
- Identify, describe, extend, and create increasing and decreasing patterns using objects, pictures, numbers, number lines, input/output tables, and function machines.
- Analyze patterns to identify the rule, extend the pattern, or find missing terms.
- Solve problems involving patterns using input and output rules.
Students will:
- Use objects and pictures to show fractions with denominators of thirds, eighths, and factors of 100 as decimals.
- Use objects and pictures to show decimals as fractions with denominators of thirds, eighths, and factors of 100.
- Find and recognize equal relationships between fractions and decimals with denominators that are thirds, eighths, and factors of 100.
- Compare and order up to four fractions or decimals from least to greatest or greatest to least and explain your reasoning.
Students will:
- Use estimation strategies to find reasonable solutions for problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals.
- Determine the product of two numbers using strategies and algorithms for multiplication.
- Determine the quotient of two numbers using strategies and algorithms for division.
- Solve single-step and multi-step problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication of decimals.
- Solve single-step problems involving division of decimals.
- Identify, describe, extend, and create increasing and decreasing patterns using objects, pictures, numbers, number lines, input/output tables, and function machines.
- Analyze patterns to identify the rule, extend the pattern, or find missing terms.
- Solve problems involving patterns using input and output rules.
Students will:
- Choose the most appropriate metric unit for measuring length, mass, and liquid volume.
- Estimate and measure length, mass, and liquid volume using metric units.
- Convert between different metric units of length, mass, and liquid volume.
Students will:
- Find the least common multiple of two numbers to use as the least common denominator for fractions.
- Estimate and determine the sum or difference of fractions and mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators, and simplify the result.
- Solve single-step and multi-step problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators.
- Solve problems involving multiplication of a whole number and a fraction with models.
- Identify, describe, extend, and create increasing and decreasing patterns using objects, pictures, numbers, number lines, input/output tables, and function machines.
- Analyze patterns to identify the rule, extend the pattern, or find missing terms.
- Solve problems involving patterns using input and output rules.
Students will:
- Classify angles as right, acute, obtuse, or straight and explain your reasoning.
- Classify triangles by their angles and sides (right, acute, obtuse, equilateral, scalene, isosceles) and explain your reasoning.
- Identify congruent sides and right angles in triangles.
- Compare and contrast different types of triangles.
- Use tools to measure and draw angles.
- Measure angles using appropriate tools and identify the measures in degrees.
- Prove that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees and use this to find unknown angle measures.
- Solve problems involving unknown angle measures.
- Develop a formula to find the area of a right triangle.
- Estimate and determine the area of a right triangle.
- Understand volume as a measure of capacity and provide examples.
- Develop a formula to find the volume of rectangular prisms.
- Estimate and determine the volume of a rectangular prism.
- Identify whether to use perimeter, area, or volume in a given situation.
- Solve problems involving perimeter, area, and volume.
Students will:
- Determine the probability of an outcome using a sample space represented by a tree diagram, list, or chart.
- Use the Fundamental (Basic) Counting Principle to find the number of possible outcomes.
- Describe the mean as a fair share and determine the mean of a data set.
- Determine the median, mode, and range of a data set.
- Use measures of center and range to describe data.
In this unit, teachers will provide differentiated opportunities for students to review previous content and explore content at a deeper level.
Virginia Department of Education Resources
Assessments
Student assessments are part of the teaching and learning process.
- Teachers give assessments to students on an ongoing basis to
- Check for understanding
- Gather information about students' knowledge or skills.
- Assessments provide information about a child's development of knowledge and skills that can help families and teachers better plan for the next steps in instruction.
For testing questions or additional information about how schools and teachers use test results to support student success, families can contact their children's schools.
In Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), fifth grade tests focus on measuring content knowledge and skill development.