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Grade 5 Overview |
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In Rockingham County Public Schools, fifth-grade students will be introduced to standards which place emphasis on developing proficiency in using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals to solve problems. Students will collect, display, and analyze data in a variety of ways and solve probability problems, using a sample space or tree diagram. Students also will solve problems involving area and perimeter, classify angles and triangles, and plot points in the coordinate plane. Variables, expressions, and open sentences will be introduced. While learning mathematics, students will be actively engaged, using concrete materials and appropriate technologies such as calculators and computers. However, facility in the use of technology shall not be regarded as a substitute for a student's understanding of quantitative concepts and relationships or for proficiency in basic computations. Students also will identify real-life applications of the mathematical principles that can be applied to science and other disciplines they are studying. Mathematics has its own language in which acquisition of specialized vocabulary and language patterns are crucial to a student's understanding and appreciation of the subject. Students should be encouraged to correctly use the concepts, skills, symbols, and vocabulary identified in the following set of standards. Problem solving has been integrated throughout the six content strands. This development should be a major goal of the mathematics program at every grade level. Instruction in the process of problem solving will need to be integrated early and continuously into each student's mathematics education. Students must be helped to develop a wide range of skills and strategies for solving a variety of problems. |