5th grade Math
12 units matched to the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards.
Focus areas
- Patterns and relationships: operations with decimals and fractions, and expressions
- Spatial reasoning, data and probability: volume, the coordinate plane, and data displays
- Mathematical practices: making sense of problems and explaining reasoning
Units
Unit 1
Numbers to a Million
Place value to 1,000,000: digit values, standard and expanded form, number words, rounding, ordering, and using benchmarks like 500,000 on a number line.
Benchmark: 5.3.5.7 · place value in multi-digit numbers
Unit 2
Multiply
Multiplying 2- and 3-digit numbers using area models and partial products, patterns with 10, 100 and 1000, doubling and halving, and estimating products by rounding.
Benchmark: 5.3.5.1 · multiplying multi-digit numbers
Unit 3
Divide
Dividing 2- and 3-digit numbers, finding remainders and deciding what they mean in a story (round up for buses, drop the extra for full bags), and estimating with friendly numbers.
Benchmark: 5.3.5.2; 5.3.5.3 · dividing by one- and two-digit divisors and making sense of remainders
Unit 4
Equivalent Fractions
Making and recognizing equivalent fractions (2/3 = 8/12), simplifying, comparing and ordering fractions, and judging whether a fraction is close to 0, 1/2 or 1.
Benchmark: 5.3.5.5; 5.3.5.11 · equivalent fractions, and adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
Unit 5
Decimals
Reading, writing, comparing and rounding decimals to thousandths, linking decimals to fractions out of 10, 100 and 1000, and adding and subtracting decimals in real situations.
Benchmark: 5.3.5.9; 5.3.5.12; 5.3.5.6 · comparing, estimating and adding decimals
Unit 6
Patterns & Equations
Describing growing and shrinking patterns with rules and expressions like 3n + 1, using input–output tables, and solving one-step equations such as n + 37 = 92 or 6 × n = 54.
Benchmark: 5.3.7.2; 5.3.7.5 · relationships between two patterns, and rules for visual patterns
Unit 7
Mental Math Tricks
Recalling multiplication and division facts to 9 × 9, and mental strategies such as adding zeros, halving and doubling, and breaking a number into friendly parts.
Benchmark: 5.3.5.7; 5.3.5.1 · multiplying by powers of 10 and mental multiplication strategies
Unit 8
Parentheses & Expressions
Evaluating expressions with parentheses and brackets, writing an expression from words, and reading an expression without calculating it.
Benchmark: 5.3.6.2 · numerical expressions with parentheses and the four operations
Unit 9
Coordinate Grid
Naming and plotting points in the first quadrant of the coordinate grid, and reading what a point means in a real situation.
Benchmark: 5.3.7.1; 5.3.7.3 · graphing ordered pairs in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane
Unit 10
Multiply & Divide Fractions
Multiplying a fraction by a whole number or a fraction, dividing a unit fraction by a whole number (and the other way round), and seeing a fraction as sharing.
Benchmark: 5.3.5.14; 5.3.5.15; 5.3.5.16 · multiplying fractions and whole numbers, and dividing by unit fractions
Unit 11
Unlike Denominators
Adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with different denominators by finding a common denominator, and checking with benchmark fractions.
Benchmark: 5.3.5.11; 5.3.5.13 · adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators
Unit 12
Volume of Boxes
Finding volume by counting unit cubes and layers, using V = l × w × h, finding a missing side, and adding the volumes of two boxes.
Benchmark: 5.2.3.3; 5.2.3.5 · measuring volume with unit cubes and finding the volume of a rectangular prism
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