Essential Understandings

• Select appropriate strategy for solving problem
• Explain thinking about problem
• Solve problems concerning a variety of math concepts

Essential Understandings

• Understand the concept of multiplication

Essential Understandings

• Understand the concept of division
• Perform the operation of division with divisor of one or two digits
• Understand what to do with remainders
• Be able to divide decimals

Essential Understandings

• Understand the structure of numerical and geometric patterns
• Understand that a variable is a symbol that can stand for any member of a set of numbers
• Understand that a variable expression is a variable or combination of variables, numbers, and symbols that represents a mathematical relationship
• Understand that an open sentence is a mathematical sentence with a variable

Essential Understandings

• Understand how to select a measuring device and unit of measurement to solve problems involving measurement
• Length – inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, kilometers
• Weight/Mass – ounces, pounds, tons, grams, kilograms
• Liquid Volume – cups, pints, quarts, gallons, milliliters, liters
• Temperature – Celsius, Fahrenheit

Essential Understandings

• Collect and organize information into a variety of forms including: bar graph, stem-and-leaf plots, line graphs
• Draw conclusion and make predictions using data
• Understand what is the best graph to use in a particular situation
• Determine the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data

Essential Understandings

• Find equivalent fractions
• Understand the relationship between fractions and decimals
• Write fractions in simplest form
• Add and subtract fractions
• Understand how to change fractions to mixed-numbers and mixed-numbers to fractions

Essential Understandings

• Understand how percents relate to fractions

Essential Understandings

• Read decimals through thousandths
• Round decimals to nearest tenth or hundredth
• Compare decimals
• Be able to add, subtract, multiply, divide decimals

Essential Understandings

• Classify right, acute, and obtuse angles
• Describe properties of squares, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, rhombi, kites, and trapezoids
• Identify congruent, non-congruent, and similar figures
• Describe lines of symmetry
• Recognize transformations (translations, reflection, rotation)
• Identify properties of cylinder, cone, cube, square pyramid, rectangular prism

Essential Understandings

• Determine area of square, rectangle, right triangle
• Familiar with area formulas for rectangle, square, triangle
• Differentiate between application of area and perimeter
• Multiply using decimals

Essential Understandings

• Understand the concepts of perimeter for a polygon
• Understand appropriate unit of measurement for perimeter
• Add and subtract with decimals

Essential Understandings

• Be able to predict probability of outcomes
• Analyze mean, median, range, mode