MATH fourth and fifth grade

Please be sure your child knows his or her addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. This is crucial for your child in order to experience success in math.

Each fourth and grader is responsible for creating his or her vocabulary file folder. Please provide your child with index cards and tape needed to complete this through out the year.

Parents, PLEASE practice and review skills at home.

Fourth grade
Unit 3- the emphasis in this unit is gaining proficiency with multiplication and division facts as well as using a variety of strategies, such as adding to known facts and doubling facts.
 Chapter 7- Use properties of multiplication, multiply facts through 12, review patterns in a multiplication table, and use skills and strategies to solve problems.
Chapter 8- Divide facts through 12, use inverse operations of multiplication and division, and use expressions to multiply and divide, use skills and strategies to solve word problems.

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Bonus Points for both grades
The book’s practice and problem solving pages may be used to review and strengthen the skills taught in class. If you feel your child could use some extra practice, please do this work on loose leaf paper. This will count as extra credit to his or her math grade. The workbooks will be used for the homework assignments.

Fifth Grade
Unit 5- The emphasis of this unit is mastery of basic understanding of fractions as numbers, including concepts of greater common factor, least common denominator, and simplest form.
Chapter 9 –Students will learn: writing composite numbers as products of primes, finding the GCF, Finding equivalent fractions, and simplifying fractions.
 Chapter 10-Students will learn: finding the LCM and LCD; relating fractions and decimals: comparing and ordering fractions, mixed numbers and decimals.
Unit 6- the emphasis of this unit is mastery of addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers, including estimation. Properties of addition are applied to fractions.
Chapter 11- Students will learn: adding fractions and mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators, applying properties of addition to fraction and mixed numbers.
I am very proud of all the hard work and efforts of my students.
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Bonus Points for both grades

The book’s practice and problem solving pages may be used to review and strengthen the skills taught in class. If you feel your child could use some extra practice, please do this work on loose leaf paper. This will count as extra credit to his or her math grade. The workbooks will be used for the homework assignments.