Your 4th-grade child will... 

• Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
• Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.
• Generate and analyze patterns.
• Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.
• Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
• Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
• Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
• Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
• Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
• Represent and interpret data.
• Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles.
• Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.

 

Your 5th-grade child will...

• Understand place value; patterns with exponents and powers of 10, decimals to thousandths, compare decimals, and round decimals. 
• Add and subtract decimals to hundredths; estimate sums and differences, use models to add and subtract decimals, and have lots of practice adding and subtracting decimals. 
• Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers.
• Use models and strategies to multiply decimals.
• Use models and strategies to divide whole numbers and decimals. 
• Use equivalent fractions to add and subtract fractions. 
• Apply their understanding of multiplication to multiply fractions. 
• Apply their understanding of division to divide fractions. 
• Understand volume concepts; the volume of prisms, and develop a volume formula. 
• Convert measurements; units of length, units of capacity, units of weight, units of length, and units of mass. 
• Represent and interpret data. 
• Write and interpret numerical expressions; order of operations.

 

  

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