5^th Grade Math Objectives Month-by-Month

August

• Sequences and digits
• Even and odd numbers
• Using money to illustrate place value
• Comparing whole numbers
• Name whole numbers through hundreds
• Using dollars and cents to describe place value
• Add one-digit numbers
• Use the addition algorithm
• Ordinal numbers
• Write and compare numbers through hundred thousand
• Subtraction fact families
• Practicing the subtraction algorithm
• Missing addends

September

• Story problems about combining
• Lines, number lines, and tally marks
• Short division
• Divisibility by 3, 6, and 9
• Writing quotients as mixed numbers
• Add and subtract whole numbers, fractions, and mixed numbers
• Measuring lengths with a ruler
• Classify quadrilaterals
• Fraction of a group
• Simplify mixed measures
• Reading and writing whole numbers in expanded notation
• Solving two-step word problems
• Finding an average

October

• Organizing and analyzing data
• Multiplying by two-digit numbers
• Naming numbers through hundred billions
• Perimeter
• Measures of a circle
• Dividing by multiples of 10
• Multiplying by three-digit numbers

November

• Multiplying by three-digit numbers that include zero
• Simple probability
• Writing quotients as mixed numbers
• Fractions equal to 1
• Subtracting a fraction from 1
• Finding a fraction to complete a whole
• Performing probability experiments

December

• Using letter to identify geometric figures
• Estimating arithmetic answers
• Subtracting a fraction from a whole number greater than 1
• Using money to model decimal numbers
• Decimal parts of a meter
• Reading a centimeter scale
• Writing tenths and hundredths as decimal numbers
• Naming decimal numbers
• Fractions of a second
• Comparing and ordering decimal numbers

January

• Writing cents correctly
• Writing equivalent decimal numbers
• Recognize patterns
• Recognize what an "area" is
• Adding and subtract decimal numbers
• Convert unit of length
• Change improper fractions to whole or mixed numbers
• Multiply fractions
• Convert units of weight and mass
• Exponents and powers
• Finding equivalent fractions by multiply by 1
• Prime and composite numbers

February

• Displaying data
• Reducing fractions
• Finding the GCF (Greatest Common Factor)
• Study the properties of geometric solids
• Locate the mean, median, mode, and range in a group of numbers
• Convert units of capacity
• Multiply fractions and whole numbers
• Use manipulatives and sketches to divide fractions
• Recognize transformations
• Find square roots
• Reducing fractions
• Line graphs
• Simplifying improper fractions

March

• Dividing by two-digit numbers
• Comparing bar graphs
• Using estimation when dividing by two-digit numbers

• Reciprocals
• Use reciprocals to divide fractions
• Ratios
• Negative numbers
• Add subtract whole numbers mixed with decimal numbers
• Simplify decimal numbers
• Graph points on a coordinate plane
• Round mixed numbers to the nearest whole number
• Subtract decimal numbers using zeros

April

• Volume
• Round decimal numbers to the nearest whole number
• symmetry
• read and order decimal numbers through ten-thousandths
• use percent to name part of a group
• multiply decimal numbers: using zeros as placeholders
• multiply decimal numbers by 10, by 100, and by 1000
• find the LCM of two numbers
• write mixed numbers as improper fractions
• determine that problems may have no solution or many solutions
• rediscover area

May

• finding common denominators to add, subtract, and compare fractions
• divide a decimal number by a whole number
• using zero as a place holder to divide decimals
• dividing a decimal by a decimal
• multiplying mixed numbers

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