Fifth Grade Mathematics:
We use a variety of curricula at this grade level and our planning and curriculum is guided by the following work:
Mathematical Mindsets and YouCubed
Our curriculum is designed around problem solving. Students are given low-floor, high-ceiling tasks, showing them that everyone can engage and succeed in high-level mathematics. The visual and open-ended presentation of mathematics helps students find their personal connections to topics, realizing their own potential, as well as their ability to contribute to the learning of others.
Eureka Math
This curriculum is aligned to the Common Core Standards for mathematics. Lessons are centered building competency in specific grade-level strategies to approach place value and decimal fractions, multi-digit whole number and decimal fraction operations, addition and subtraction of fractions, multiplication and division of fractions and decimal fractions, addition and multiplication with area and volume, and problem solving with the coordinate plane.
Other resources that guided curriculum development:
We use two main curricula at this grade level. These are detailed below:
Our main units of study are: Area and surface area, introducing ratios, rates and percentages, operations with fractions and decimals, expressions and equations, rational numbers, and data sets and distribution
Open Up Resources:
A problem-based mathematics developed by Illustrative Mathematics. "In a problem-based curriculum, students work on carefully crafted and sequenced mathematics problems during most of the instructional time. Teachers help students understand the problems and guide discussions to be sure that the mathematical take-aways are clear to all. Not all mathematical knowledge can be discovered, so direct instruction is sometimes appropriate. On the other hand, some concepts and procedures follow from definitions and prior knowledge and students can, with appropriately constructed problems, see this for themselves. In the process, they explain their ideas and reasoning and learn to communicate mathematical ideas. The goal is to give students just enough background and tools to solve initial problems successfully, and then set them to increasingly sophisticated problems as their expertise increases."
Connected Mathematics Program (CMP)
"CMP is a problem-centered curriculum promoting an inquiry-based teaching-learning classroom environment. Mathematical ideas are identified and embedded in a carefully sequenced set of tasks and explored in depth to allow students to develop rich mathematical understandings. The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) and the Standards for Mathematical Practice emerge as students pursue solutions to problems. The curriculum helps students grow in their ability to reason effectively with information represented in graphic, numeric, symbolic, and verbal forms and to move flexibly among these representations to produce fluency in both conceptual and procedural knowledge." This curriculum was adopted by BVSD and is taught in other BVSD middle schools.
We use a variety of curricula at this grade level and our planning and curriculum is guided by the following work:
Mathematical Mindsets and YouCubed
Our curriculum is designed around problem solving. Students are given low-floor, high-ceiling tasks, showing them that everyone can engage and succeed in high-level mathematics. The visual and open-ended presentation of mathematics helps students find their personal connections to topics, realizing their own potential, as well as their ability to contribute to the learning of others.
Eureka Math
This curriculum is aligned to the Common Core Standards for mathematics. Lessons are centered building competency in specific grade-level strategies to approach place value and decimal fractions, multi-digit whole number and decimal fraction operations, addition and subtraction of fractions, multiplication and division of fractions and decimal fractions, addition and multiplication with area and volume, and problem solving with the coordinate plane.
Other resources that guided curriculum development:
- Number Talks by Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker
- Visible Learning for Mathematics by John Hattie, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Linda Gojak, Sara Delano Moore, and William Mellman
- Elementary and Middle School Mathematics - Teaching Developmentally by John A. Van de Walle, Karen S. Karp, and Jennifer M. Bay-Williams
We use two main curricula at this grade level. These are detailed below:
Our main units of study are: Area and surface area, introducing ratios, rates and percentages, operations with fractions and decimals, expressions and equations, rational numbers, and data sets and distribution
Open Up Resources:
A problem-based mathematics developed by Illustrative Mathematics. "In a problem-based curriculum, students work on carefully crafted and sequenced mathematics problems during most of the instructional time. Teachers help students understand the problems and guide discussions to be sure that the mathematical take-aways are clear to all. Not all mathematical knowledge can be discovered, so direct instruction is sometimes appropriate. On the other hand, some concepts and procedures follow from definitions and prior knowledge and students can, with appropriately constructed problems, see this for themselves. In the process, they explain their ideas and reasoning and learn to communicate mathematical ideas. The goal is to give students just enough background and tools to solve initial problems successfully, and then set them to increasingly sophisticated problems as their expertise increases."
Connected Mathematics Program (CMP)
"CMP is a problem-centered curriculum promoting an inquiry-based teaching-learning classroom environment. Mathematical ideas are identified and embedded in a carefully sequenced set of tasks and explored in depth to allow students to develop rich mathematical understandings. The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) and the Standards for Mathematical Practice emerge as students pursue solutions to problems. The curriculum helps students grow in their ability to reason effectively with information represented in graphic, numeric, symbolic, and verbal forms and to move flexibly among these representations to produce fluency in both conceptual and procedural knowledge." This curriculum was adopted by BVSD and is taught in other BVSD middle schools.