Parent Guide For Grade 5 Mathematics

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Mathematics
Grade 5
PARENT GUIDE FOR GRADE 5 MATHEMATICS
Preparing Florida’s Children for a Successful Future
All Florida students deserve to graduate high school with the knowledge
and skills they need to succeed in college, careers and life. Over the last
several years, Florida has made strong academic gains. But, we know
today’s workforce requires our graduates to have stronger critical
thinking, problem solving and communications skills than ever before.
Higher standards that challenge and motivate our students are essential.
To address this need, education leaders across the state of Florida
improved our academic content standards, creating new expectations
for what students need to know and be able to do. The Florida Standards
are designed to ensure that ALL students reach their greatest potential—
whatever their path may be.
Preparing your child for success begins in kindergarten and continues as your child moves up through each grade.
This guide will support parents and families with children in fifth grade by helping you:
Learn
about the Florida Standards and why they matter for your child.
Talk
with your child’s teachers about what he/she will be learning in the classroom.
Support
your child’s learning in practical ways at home.
LEARN ABOUT THE STANDARDS
Florida students will continue to practice many of the same things you learned in
fifth grade—along with some important additional skills. Fifth grade students are
Every child develops at
learning these types of lessons:
his/her own pace. The
activities in this guide
• Using parentheses, brackets or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluating
are recommended age-
expressions with the following symbols.
specific guidelines for
growing young minds.
• Recognizing that in a multi-digital number, a digit in one place represents 10 times
as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the
place to its left.
• Using place value, understanding to round decimals to any place.
• Measuring volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic centimeter, cubic feet and improvised units.
Download the complete Mathematics Florida Standards for Grade 5 at
#FLStandards
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