Melvin Said:

What do upper-elementary students learn for Math?

We Answered:

Go to your state's Board of Education web site and look up the benchmarks for math. Pay special attention to the indicators that are state tested.

According to the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, here are the curriculum focal points from the national standards.

_________4th grade:____________
*Number and Operations and Algebra: Developing quick recall of multiplication facts and related division facts and fluency with whole number multiplication.
*Number and Operations: Developing an understanding of decimals, including the connections between fractions and decimals.
*Measurement: Developing an understanding of area and determining the areas of two-dimensional shapes.

Connections to the Focal Points
*Algebra: Students continue identifying, describing, and extending numeric patterns involving all operations and nonnumeric growing or repeating patterns. Through these experiences, they develop an understanding of the use of a rule to describe a sequence of numbers or objects.
*Geometry: Students extend their understanding of properties of two-dimensional shapes as they find the areas of polygons. They build on their earlier work with symmetry and congruence in grade 3 to encompass transformations, including those that produce line and rotational symmetry. By using transformations to design and analyze simple tilings and tessellations, students deepen their understanding of two-dimensional space.
*Measurement: As part of understanding two-dimensional shapes, students measure and classify angles.
*Data Analysis: Students continue to use tools from grade 3, solving problems by making frequency tables, bar graphs, picture graphs, and line plots. They apply their understanding of place value to develop and use stem-and-leaf plots.
*Number and Operations: Building on their work in grade 3, students extend their understanding of place value and ways of representing numbers to 100,000 in various contexts. They use estimation in determining the relative sizes of amounts or distances. Students develop understandings of strategies for multidigit division by using models that represent division as the inverse of multiplication, as partitioning, or as successive subtraction. By working with decimals, students extend their ability to recognize equivalent fractions. Students’ earlier work in grade 3 with models of fractions and multiplication and division facts supports their understanding of techniques for generating equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions.



________5th grade:___________
*Number and Operations and Algebra: Developing an understanding of and fluency with division of whole numbers.
*Number and Operations: Developing an understanding of and fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions and decimals.
*Geometry and Measurement and Algebra: Describing three-dimensional shapes and analyzing their properties, including volume and surface area.

Connections to the Focal Points
*Algebra: Students use patterns, models, and relationships as contexts for writing and solving simple equations and inequalities. They create graphs of simple equations. They explore prime and composite numbers and discover concepts related to the addition and subtraction of fractions as they use factors and multiples, including applications of common factors and common multiples. They develop an understanding of the order of operations and use it for all operations.
*Measurement: Students’ experiences connect their work with solids and volume to their earlier work with capacity and weight or mass. They solve problems that require attention to both approximation and precision of measurement.
*Data Analysis: Students apply their understanding of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals as they construct and analyze double-bar and line graphs and use ordered pairs on coordinate grids.
*Number and Operations: Building on their work in grade 4, students extend their understanding of place value to numbers through millions and millionths in various contexts. They apply what they know about multiplication of whole numbers to larger numbers. Students also explore contexts that they can describe with negative numbers (e.g., situations of owing money or measuring elevations above and below sea level).

Patrick Said:

Home schooling lesson plan ideas for a 7 yr old?

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You might want to have a look at the enchanted learning site. To get the best use of the site you will have to pay a $20 fee to join. It will give you tons of ideas and resources. Best of luck with it.

Judy Said:

Telling time lesson plan/activity?

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Well, you could have them make analog clocks out of paper plates.
They decorate the plate and put on the numbers, and then cut out big and little hands from cardboard. (Index cards work well for this --- give each kid one) You should have a model of sets of hands -- you could probably draw several sets on one sheet of paper and photocopy it.
You'll need a clock, too. Most toy stores have them, or you can make one yourself for the kids to see. Attach the hands to the center of the
clock with metal "brad" fasteners so they'll be able to move. When you've all got clocks, then first do the hours and half hours. Show them a time (eg 8:00, 7:30) and when they've got that idea, choose kids to show different times and have the others guess. Then you'd move to quarter past and quarter to. You need to explain that quarter past 3 is the same as 3:15. If you get further than that, then explain that there are 60 minutes in an hour and have them count by 5's to 60
while you move the big hand around. Then they model different times
on their own clocks. This is a long lesson and would normally take a couple of days, because they won't remember it all. But since they're in third grade, they should catch on to some of it. Even though you're a field student, you want to make a good impression, so whatever you do, have an agenda and all of your materials ready. Good luck!

Dennis Said:

Lesson Plan help?

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Ryan Said:

Can you please check my easy peasy math homework with fractions?-?Ë®?ñ?¡??

We Answered:

Hi,

10.correct

11. 2 and 2/3÷1 and 4/7
=8/3 ÷11/7
= 56/33 =1 23/33 <== Answer

12. 7/8÷2/3
=21/16
=1 5/16 <== Answer

13.correct
14.correct
15.correct
16.correct

17. 5/6÷ 2 and 3/10
= 5/6÷23/10
=25/69 <==Answer

18. 2 and 1/8÷3 and 1/4
=17/8÷13/4
=17/26 <== Answer

19.correct
20.correct
21.correct

Good luck =)