MATHEMATICS Grade 5

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Math Trivia 1 3 Investigations

Let's find out about our class. What is the typical
The ancient Greeks believed that if you studied
fifth grade student like? What do we mean by
numbers you had to be a peson who did not
"typical?" What questions do we want to answer
need to work because you would probably be a
about ourselves?
person who was interested in strange and
wonderful things. Who studies numbers today?
Here's a possible plan of action:
1. Complete the census form on the back of this
page.
2. Decide what question(s) you will use to help
describe a typical fifth grade student. Determine
how you will collect your data.
3. Write a paragraph describing a typical fifth grader
at your school.
(4th review)

Using Numbers in
Powerful Ways
Fraction Fun
Package A contains 5 pounds of hamburger
meat for $4.95. If the red pattern block shape represents three-fifths
of a shape, what does the whole look like?

Package B contains 3 pounds of hamburger

meat for $3.87. If two-fifths of the shape costs $0.50, how much
would the whole shape cost?

Which is the better buy?

If one-fifth of the shape weighs 12 ounces, how
much will the whole weigh? (1.03)

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
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For Further Study
What is a census and how is it used?
(1.03)

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 FIFTH GRADE CENSUS
Name ___________________________________________________________________________
First Middle Last Name

Date of Birth: __________________________________ Height: _________________________

Month Date Year

Birth Weight: _______________________ Length at Birth: ________________________

Place of Birth ____________________________________________________________________

City County State

Current Address __________________________________________________________________

Street

________________________________________________________________________________
City State Zip Code

Home Telephone Number: _________________________e-mail____________________________

Number of people who live at this address: _________________

Number of brothers: __________ Number of sisters: __________

Hair color: _____________ Eye color: ____________ Shoe Size: ___________

Right handed or left handed? __________

Circle grades attended at this school: K 1 2 3 4 5

How do you usually come to school? (check one) __ Walk __ Ride Bike __ Bus __ Car __ Other

Do you have a pet(s)? ___ No ___ Yes If yes, please describe:

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

What is your favorite: Subject in School: ______________________________________________

At Home Activity: ______________________________________________

Sport: ________________________________________________________

Television Program: ____________________________________________

Musical Group: ________________________________________________

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 Keeping Skills Sharp
1. 23 + 146

2. 287 - 194

3. 5 x 23

4. 804 ÷ 4

5. When Joe was 5 years old, his father was 34. How old was the
father when Joe was born?

6. Sal bought 2 boxes of cookies for $1.69 each. What was the total
bill?

7. Write the largest possible 3-digit number using 4, 5, 6.

8. What is the sum of two hundred sixty and one hundred eight?

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
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Solve this!
There are 18 students from Mr. Bishop’s class seated in a circle.
They are evenly spaced and numbered in order.

Who is directly opposite student #1?

Who is directly opposite student #5?
Who is directly opposite student #18?

If, in Mr. Simmons’ class, pupil 47 is opposite pupil 16 when

the group is seated in a circle, how many students are in this PE
class?
(1.03)

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 Grade 5

To the Teacher WEEK

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Commentary on Investigations:
The census should be kept to access throughout the year. Do not try to graph all of these categories this week.
The information from the census can also be used to form a class database.

Before having your students look at any of these data, be sure the students understand the difference between
categorical and numerical data. Data that are words or categories are called categorical data, for example, where
a person is born or a student’s hair color. Data that are numbers are called numerical data, for example, a
person’s height or number of brothers and sisters.

Misconception ALERT!
Watch out for students using the count to find the range, median, or mean of categorical data. With categorical
data the only accurate measure of central tendency is MODE.
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Red Green Blue Yellow
(favorite color)
The mode is blue. There is no range, median or mean. Students may try to say the range is 7 or 8 (using the
y-axis, which is a label of count, not the actual data.) They may also try to say the range is red to yellow;
however, the range is always a number. There is no mean with categorical data because the words cannot be
added and divided. There is also not a median since the definition for median is the middle number in a set of
ordered data.

Solve This: #10 is across from #1, #14 across from #5 and #9 is across from #18.
62 students in PE class. Suggested Strategy: Draw a picture.

Directions to Students: Number your paper from

Mental Math 1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
Keeping Skills Sharp
1. (5 - 3) x 7 + 6
2. 4+2x5-3 1. 169 5. 29
3. Word form 237
4. Round to nearest ten: 83 2. 93 6. $3.38
5. Number of days in this month
6. number of sides on a hexagon 3. 115 7. 654
7. Width of pencil: centimeter or meter
8. Length of notebook paper: foot or yard 4. 201 8. 368
9. 1/2 dozen
10. Number of years in a century
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 MATHEMATICS Grade 5
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Math Trivia
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Investigations
Palindromes are words or numbers that read the same
Regular number cubes are sometimes backwards and forwards.
called seven cubes. Can you tell why? Examples of Palindromes:
Words Numbers
race car 1991
Rise to vote sir 34543
Try this:
1. Take any 2-digit (or greater) number
and add the digits in reverse order to that number.
2. Continue this process with each
Using Numbers in successive sum until you get a numerical palindrome.

Powerful Ways Examples:

245
9023
+ 3209
+542 12232
787 + 23221
A boxing ring is a square with a
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maximum perimeter of 80 feet. What is
3. Now choose 3 other numbers. Add
the area of a boxing ring with the the numbers and their reversals until
maximum perimeter? you get palindromes.
(1.03)

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(1.03)

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
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For Further Study
Try to discover a number sentence that is the same
when you read its digits from either direction, such
(1.03) as 10989 x 9 = 98901
(1.03)

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 Putting Your Calculator To Work
Directions: During the week try to solve all of these problems. If you have trouble getting started, talk to
a friend. Choose one of the problems, and write a letter explaining how you figured out the solution.

A stoplight flashes red for • How many days are there in

50 seconds, yellow for 5 seconds, one million seconds?
and green for 65 seconds.

In a 24-hour • If human life expectancy is 75

period, how years, how many hours is that?
long is the
light red?
• About how long
would the line be
if the fifth graders
in your class laid
down head to toe
to create a long
line of students?

Sean passed a bowl of peanuts around to 11 friends. Counting Sean,

there were twelve people.) Sean took 1 peanut, his 1st friend took 3
peanuts, the 2nd friend took 5 peanuts, and so on, until the 12th person
took peanuts and the bowl was empty.

How many peanuts were in the bowl in the beginning?

(1.03)

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 Keeping Skills Sharp
1. 16 + 243 + 9

2. 60 x 7

3. 470 - 246

4. Round to the nearest 10: 461

5. What is the value of 5 in 12,584?

6. (5 x 6) + 3 = ?

7. Write in order from least to greatest : 438 348 843 483

8. Jana paid 50 cents for a pack of 14 baseball cards and 75 cents for
a pack of 25 baseball cards. How many baseball cards did she
buy?

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
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Solve this!
How many ways can the librarian arrange these books on a shelf?

C
B
D

(1.03)

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To the Teacher WEEK

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Solve this: Special for this week is a permutation because the listing of the order is
important. The students may list all of the ways or create a tree diagram.

Help the students see the importance of using good order when making a list.

Example: ABCD, ABDC, ACBD, ACDB, ADBC, ADCB. Continue with the other 3
letters for 24 ways! This may also be a good time to introduce factorial notation but only
if you feel your students are ready to discuss this. Since this is a permutation with 4
choices, it is a 4 factorial. The shorthand notation for factorial is an exclamation point.
So 4! is called 4 factorial.
4! = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1= 24

There are 24 ways to arrange these 4 books on the shelf.

Suggested strategy: Make a list.

Directions to Students: Number your paper from

Mental Math 1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
Keeping Skills Sharp
1. (18 - 9) x 7 + 4
1. 268 5. 500
2. (13 - 5) x (6 - 5)
3. Word form for: 108
2. 420 6. 33
4. Round to nearest ten cents: 37¢
5. Factors of 6
3. 224 7. 348, 438,
6. Geometric figure: shape of a soup can
483, 843
7. Number of centimeters in a meter
8. Number of quarts in a gallon
4. 460 8. 39
9. Number of quarters in $2.00
10. Number of tens in 320

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Math Trivia
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Investigations
Working with a partner, can you find one or more of
How many triangles are in this shape? these:
1. Odd 3-digit numbers with the sum of the
digits = 5.
2. Number of times the digit 5 is written when
you write from 1to 1000.
3. Even 3-digit numbers greater than 700 whose
digits total 11.
4. Multiples of 5 that are 3-digit numbers whose
digit product is 90.
In each case, write an explanation of how you figured
these out.
(1.03)

(3.01)

Fraction Fun
This shape represents five-eights of a
whole. What does one-half look like?
Using Numbers in
Powerful Ways If the area of the given shape is 30
Shuffle the numbered cards of an ordinary deck square cm, what is the area of the
of cards (aces equal 1). Pick out one card to be whole?
the answer card. Then deal off the top four (1.03)
cards to use for an equation. Try to use 2, 3, or
all 4 cards to form an equation. Example:
Answer card is 4. Equation cards are 2, 6, 8, + 2 +
3 - = 1
and 10. Possible equations are 4
(10 + 6 - 8 ) ÷ 2 = 4 or 8 +2 - 6 = 4 or For Further Study
8 ÷ 2 = 4. Assign 5 points if you use all 4 cards Can you create a subtraction problem using all the
to make an equation, 3 points for using 3 number tiles 0-9?
cards, and 1 point for using only 2 cards.
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 Think Small!
Materials: Players each need a gameboard. Play is in groups of 2 to 4 people.
Each group needs a deck of cards which has the Ace, 10, Jack, Queen, and King removed.
An alternate deck would be 4 sets of 0 to 9 cards.

Directions: Shuffle cards and place deck face down on table. Players take turns drawing a card and placing it on the gameboard. Once
a card is placed, it cannot be moved. Continue until each player has drawn 3 cards. The winner is the person who has the
smallest decimal number. Alternative: Winner is the player with the decimal number closest to 0.5 or the player with the
largest decimal number.

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(1.01c)
 Keeping Skills Sharp
1. $4.03 - $2.17

2. 36 + 298 + 7 + 314

3. 245 ÷ 3

4. A wagon train could travel 19 miles a day.

How far could it travel in 6 days?

5. The Pony Express rider rode 5 horses each for 17 miles.

Did he ride more or less than 100 miles?

6. Write the largest possible even number using digits, 1, 2, and 3.

7. 2300 - 1065

8. (3 x 8) + 7 =

+ 2 +
3 - = 1
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Solve this!
Use the digits 1 to 9, once
each in the square, and
make a sum of 999.

9 9 9 (1.03)

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To the Teacher WEEK

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SOLVE THIS:
One possible solution is:
584
136
+ 279
999
The students should discover more possibilities.
Hint: Instead of making a sum of 9, the students need to make 19 for the last 2 digits
of the number. Example: 4 + 6 + ? = 19 (carry the one to the tens column).

Suggested Strategy: Guess and check

Math Trivia: twelve triangles

Directions to Students: Number your paper from

Mental Math 1 to 10. Write your answers as the questions are called
out. Each question will be repeated only once.
Keeping Skills Sharp
1. 5x2x6
2. 4x2x7
3. Word form for: 409 1. $1.86 5. 85 miles;
4. Round to nearest ten: 374 less
5. Factors of 11 2. 655 6. 312
6. Two lines that will never intersect
7. Symbol for centimeter 3. 81 r 2 7. 1235
8. Number of inches in a foot
9. 3 tens and 12 ones in standard form 4. 114 miles 8. 31
10. Value of 2 quarters, 3 dimes, and 1 nickel
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