Math 5th Grade

Hello 5th grade families!

First off, a big thank you to everyone who attended math night! It was super fun and hopefully got everyone excited about math! If you did not attend you missed some important information: math homework will be changing for 5th grade. Instead of assigning IXL or paper homework, the homework expectations from now until the end of the year will be to practice math facts each school night for 20 minutes. Each student has a log that they are responsible for bringing to and from school everyday. It will be checked daily and if they do not practice or forget their log, they will be going to study hall.

At math night we discuss some different strategies for practicing math facts. Here is a quick overview of what we discussed:

Math Night Information

Time requirements per 50 facts:

• 3rd grade- 2 minutes and 30 seconds
• 4th grade- 2 minutes
• 5th grade- 1 minute and 45 seconds

Ways to practice math facts:

• Using a plastic sleeve and a math fact page, time the facts written with dry erase/vis-a-vis markers. Math fact pages can be found at www.math-drills.com
• Flash cards
• Make two piles, the known pile that is answered within 3 seconds and the unknown pile that takes longer than 3 seconds and practice the unknown pile
• Sandwich- take the unknown pile and the known pile and stack them with 3 knowns and 1 unknown, then three more knowns and 1 unknown.

• Apps
• Math fact master
• Math magician
• IXL math facts (found under third grade)
• Manipulatives
• Dice- roll two dice and multiply them. Or if working on a specific fact, take that number and multiply it by the number rolled on the dice. Writing a list of the facts solved on a whiteboard or paper as they go is a good way to keep track of work!
• Cards- same as dice
• Dominoes- grab a domino and multiply the two sides or two dominoes and multiply together.

I will be sending a sheet home with students tomorrow with what facts they need to work on. Please feel free to follow the pacing guide handed out at math night, or just work on what they need to. The goal is to pass off one test a week. Please email me if you have any questions! We are looking forward to having students fluent in their math facts!

Week of January 29-February 1
Mon- IXL L.8
Tues- No Homework - Math Night, 5:30 pm
Wed-  IXL L.10
Thurs- IXL L.19

Week of January 22-25
Mon- Practice Test - evens
Tues- Practice math facts
Wed-  IXL L.5
Thurs- IXL L.8

Week of January 8-11
Mon- IXL K.1
Tues- IXL K.4
Wed-  IXL K.5
Thurs- IXL K.6

Week of November 27-30
Mon- After today's review, choose an IXL assignment that you think would benefit you
Tues- Practice Math Facts, Trimester 1 is ending!!
Wed-  Simplify Expressions Worksheet 1, back
Thurs- Simplify Expressions Worksheet 2, back

Week of November 13-16
Mon- Partial Quotient WS 1, back
Tues- Partial Quotient WS 2, back
Wed-  Division Test Practice, finish
Thurs- Practice Math Facts

Week of November 6 - 9
Mon- IXL C.14 (5 written on paper with Traditional Algorithm)
Tues- Practice Test, evens
Wed-  Practice Math Facts
Thurs-  Partial Quotient Division WS, back

Week of October 30 - November 2
Mon- Partial Product Multiplication WS 1, back
Tues- NO HOMEWORK- Halloween
Wed-  Partial Product Multiplication WS 2, back
Thurs-  IXL C.13

Week of October 23 - 26
Mon-  IXL G.8
Tues- IXL G.7
Wed-  5.NBT.4 Test Practice, odds
Thurs-  Test Today, Practice Math Facts

Week of October 16 - 19
Mon-  IXL I.2
Tues- IXL J.2
Wed-  5.NBT.1&2 Test Practice, odds
Thurs-  Test Today, Practice Math Facts

Week of October 9 - 12
Mon- 10 mins of IXL G.12, 10 mins of IXL G.13
Tues- IXL G.11
Wed-  5.NBT.3 Test Practice, odds
Thurs-  IXL G.9

Week of October 2 - 5
Mon- Decimal #1 worksheet, back side
Tues- IXL G.3
Wed-  Comparing Decimals worksheet, back side
Thurs-  IXL G.9

Week of September 25-28
Mon- IXL A.2
Tues- IXL A.3
Wed-  Rounding whole numbers worksheet, bottom halves
Thurs-  IXL G.4