Content Emphasized in Grade 5

In Everyday Mathematics children develop a broad background by learning concepts and skills in all these six content strands. The Third grade program emphasizes the following content

Number and Numeration
Recognizing place value in numberals for whole numbers and decimals; expressing numbers in scientific notation; finding factors of numbers; comparing properties of prime and composite numbers; representing rates and ratios of fraction notation.

Operations and Computation
Extending whole-number facts with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to fractions and decimals; evaluating symbolic expressions

Data and Chance
Collecting, Organizing, and analyzing data using bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and stem-and-leaf plots

Measurement and Reference Frames
Using linear, area, capacity, and personal reference measures; locating items with reference to an orgin or zero point, for example, ordinal numbers, times of day, dates and temperatures

Geometry
Investigating angles and rotations; calculating area and volume; drawing to scale; introducing relationships of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures; exploring new transformations that affect attributes of geometric shapes

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Determining divisibility ; exploring number patterns; applying formulas to geometric figures; creating number models; working with scientific calculators; squaring and unsquaring numbers; exploring variables in formulas