Over the remaining 8 weeks of school, I will be devoted the majority of our math time to preparing the kids for the type of math they'll be working with in middle school. I'm dividing the class into two groups. In one group, we'll be reviewing clustering strategies for multiplication and division, and practicing skills involving fractions and decimals.
The other portion of the class will be working on higher level math skills that they will encounter when they get to middle school, including prime factorization and other algebra skills. This extra head start on middle school content will give the kids a big advantage going into sixth grade.
While we preview middle school skills, we will also continue working on our remaining fifth grade standards with the whole class, including work with data, graphing, measurement and geometry.
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