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NYSE Standards

PROCESS STRANDS

  • Problem solving
  • Reasoning and Proof
  • Communication
  • Connections
  • Representation
Problem solving
5.PS.1 Explore, examine, and make observations about a social problem or mathematical situation
5.PS.2 Understand that some ways of representing a problem are more helpful than others
5.PS.3 Interpret information correctly, identify the problem, and generate possible solutions
5.PS.4 Act out or model with manipulatives activities involving mathematical content from literature
5.PS.5 Formulate problems and solutions from everyday situations
5.PS.6 Translate from a picture/diagram to a numeric expression
5.PS.7 Represent problem solving situations in oral, written, concrete, pictorial, and graphical forms
5.PS.8 Select an appropriate representation of a problem
5.PS.9 Use trial and error to solve problems
5.PS.10 Use process of elimination to solve problems
5.PS.11 Make pictures/diagrams of problems
5.PS.12 Use physical objects to model problems
5.PS.13 Work in collaboration with others to solve problems
5.PS.14 Make organized lists to solve numerical problems
5.PS.15 Make charts to solve numerical problems
5.PS.16 Analyze problems by identifying relationships
5.PS.17 Analyze problems by identifying relevant versus irrelevant information
5.PS.18 Analyze problems by observing patterns
5.PS.19 State a problem in their own words
5.PS.20 Determine what information is needed to solve a problem
5.PS.21 Discuss with peers to understand a problem situation
5.PS.22 Discuss the efficiency of different representations of a problem
5.PS.23 Verify results of a problem
5.PS.24 Recognize invalid approaches
5.PS.25 Determine whether a solution is reasonable in the context of the original problem
Reasoning and Proof
5.RP.1 Use representations to support mathematical ideas
5.RP.2 Determine whether a mathematical statement is true or false and explain why
5.RP.3 Investigate the use of knowledgeable guessing by generalizing mathematical ideas
5.RP.4 Make conjectures from a variety of representations
5.RP.5 Justify general claims or conjectures, using manipulatives, models, and expressions
.RP.6 Develop and explain an argument using oral, written, concrete, pictorial, and/or graphical forms
5.RP.7 Discuss, listen, and make comments that support or reject claims made by other students
5.RP.8 Support an argument by trying many cases
Communication
5.CM.1 Understand and explain how to organize their thought process
.CM.2 Verbally explain their rationale for strategy selection
5.CM.3 Provide reasoning both in written and verbal form
5.CM.4 Organize and accurately label work
5.CM.5 Share organized mathematical ideas through the manipulation of objects, drawings, pictures, charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, models, symbols, and expressions in written and verbal form
5.CM.6 Answer clarifying questions from others
5.CM.7 Listen for understanding of mathematical solutions shared by other students
5.CM.8 Consider strategies used and solutions found in relation to their own work
5.CM.9 Increase their use of mathematical vocabulary and language when communicating with others
5.CM.10 Describe objects, relationships, solutions and rationale using appropriate vocabulary
5.CM.11 Decode and comprehend mathematical visuals and symbols to construct meaning
Connections
5.CN.1 Recognize, understand, and make connections in their everyday experiences to mathematical ideas
5.CN.2 Compare and contrast mathematical ideas
5.CN.3 Connect and apply mathematical information to solve problems
5.CN.4 Understand multiple representations and how they are related
5.CN.5 Model situations with objects and representations and be able to make observations
5.CN.6 Recognize the presence of mathematics in their daily lives
5.CN.7 Apply mathematics to solve problems that develop outside of mathematics
5.CN.8 Recognize and apply mathematics to other disciplines
Representation
5.R.1 Use verbal and written language, physical models, drawing charts, graphs, tables, symbols, and equations as representations
5.R.2 Share mental images of mathematical ideas and understandings
5.R.3 Recognize and use external mathematical representations
5.R.4 Use standard and nonstandard representations with accuracy and detail
5.R.5 Understand similarities and differences in representations
5.R.6 Connect mathematical representations with problem solving
5.R.7 Construct effective representations to solve problems
5.R.8 Use mathematics to show and understand physical phenomena (e.g., estimate and represent the number of apples in a tree)
5.R.9 Use mathematics to show and understand social phenomena (e.g., determine the number of buses required for a field trip)
5.R.10 Use mathematics to show and understand mathematical phenomena (e.g., use a multiplication grid to solve odd and even number problems)
The Process Strands highlight ways of acquiring and using content knowledge. Though the Process Strands are not individually covered, students are required to problem solve, reason, and apply their knowledge throughout.

CONTENT STRANDS

Number Sense and Operations Strand

Students will understand numbers, multiple ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.
Number Systems
5.M.1 - Use a ruler to measure to the nearest inch, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 inch
5.M.2 - Identify customary equivalent units of length
5.M.3 - Measure to the nearest centimeter
5.M.4 - Identify equivalent metric units of length
5.M.5 - Convert measurement within a given system
5.M.6 - Determine the tool and technique to measure with an appropriate level of precision: lengths and angles
5.M.7 - Calculate elapsed time in hours and minutes
5.M.8 - Measure and draw angles using a protractor
5.M.9 - Determine personal references for customary units of length (e.g., your pace is approximately 3 feet, your height is approximately 5 feet, etc.)
5.M.10 - Determine personal references for metric units of length
5.M.11 - Justify the reasonableness of estimates
Number Theory
5.N.12 - Recognize that some numbers are only divisible by one and themselves (prime) and others have multiple divisors (composite)
5.N.13 - Calculate multiples of a whole number and the least common multiple of two numbers
5.N.14 - Identify the factors of a given number
5.N.15 - Find the common factors and the greatest common factor of two numbers
Students will understand meanings of operations and procedures, and how they relate to one another.
Operations
5.N.16 - Use a variety of strategies to multiply three-digit by three-digit numbers
5.N.17 - Use a variety of strategies to divide three-digit numbers by one- and two-digit numbers
5.N.18 - Evaluate an arithmetic expression using order of operations including multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and parentheses
5.N.19 - Simplify fractions to lowest terms
5.N.20 - Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers, and mixed numbers to improper fractions
5.N.21 - Use a variety of strategies to add and subtract fractions with like denominators
5.N.22 - Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators
5.N.23 - Use a variety of strategies to add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to thousandths
Students will compute accurately and make reasonable estimates.
Estimation
5.N.24 - Round numbers to the nearest hundredth and up to 10,000
5.N.25 - Estimate sums and differences of fractions with like denominators
5.N.26 - Estimate sums, differences, products, and quotients of decimals
5.N.27 - Justify the reasonableness of answers using estimation

Algebra Strand

Students will represent and analyze algebraically a wide variety of problem solving situations.
Variables and Expressions
5.A.1 - Define and use appropriate terminology when referring to constants, variables, and algebraic expressions
5.A.2 - Translate simple verbal expressions into algebraic expressions
Students will perform algebraic procedures accurately.
Variables and Expressions
5.A.3 - Substitute assigned values into variable expressions and evaluate using order of operations
Equations and Inequalities
5.A.4 - Solve simple one-step equations using basic whole-number facts
5.A.5 - Solve and explain simple one-step equations using inverse operations involving whole numbers
5.A.6 - Evaluate the perimeter formula for given input values
Students will recognize, use, and represent algebraically patterns, relations, and functions.
Patterns, Functions, and Relations
5.A.7 - Create and explain patterns and algebraic relationships (e,g.,2,4,6,8...) algebraically: 2n (doubling)
5.A.8 - Create algebraic or geometric patterns using concrete objects or visual drawings (e.g., rotate and shade geometric shapes)

Geometry Strand

Students will use visualization and spatial reasoning to analyze characteristics and properties of geometric shapes.
Shapes
5.G.1 - Calculate the perimeter of regular and irregular polygons
Students will identify and justify geometric relationships, formally and informally.
Geometric Relationships
5.G.2 - Identify pairs of similar triangles
5.G.3 - Identify the ratio of corresponding sides of similar triangles
5.G.4 - Classify quadrilaterals by properties of their angles and sides
5.G.5 - Know that the sum of the interior angles of a quadrilateral is 360 degrees
5.G.6 - Classify triangles by properties of their angles and sides
5.G.7 - Know that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees
5.G.8 - Find a missing angle when given two angles of a triangle
5.G.9 - Identify pairs of congruent triangles
5.G.10 - Identify corresponding parts of congruent triangles
Students will apply transformations and symmetry to analyze problem solving situations.
Transformational Geometry
5.G.11 - Identify and draw lines of symmetry of basic geometric shapes
Students will apply coordinate geometry to analyze problem solving situations.
Coordinate Geometry
5.G.12 - Identify and plot points in the first quadrant
5.G.13 - Plot points to form basic geometric shapes (identify and classify)
5.G.14 - Calculate perimeter of basic geometric shapes drawn on a coordinate plane (rectangles and shapes composed of rectangles having sides with integer lengths and parallel to the axes)

Measurement Strand

Students will determine what can be measured and how, using appropriate methods and formulas.
Units of Measurement
5.M.1 - Use a ruler to measure to the nearest inch, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 inch
5.M.2 - Identify customary equivalent units of length
5.M.3 - Measure to the nearest centimeter
5.M.4 - Identify equivalent metric units of length
5.M.5 - Convert measurement within a given system
5.M.6 - Determine the tool and technique to measure with an appropriate level of precision: lengths and angles
Students will use units to give meaning to measurements.
Units
5.M.7 - Calculate elapsed time in hours and minutes
5.M.8 - Measure and draw angles using a protractor
Students will develop strategies for estimating measurements.
Estimation
5.M.9 - Determine personal references for customary units of length (e.g., your pace is approximately 3 feet, your height is approximately 5 feet, etc.)
5.M.10 - Determine personal references for metric units of length
5.M.11 - Justify the reasonableness of estimates

Statistics and Probability Strand

Students will collect, organize, display, and analyze data.
Collection of Data
5.S.1 - Collect and record data from a variety of sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, polls, charts, and surveys)
Organization and Display of Data
5.S.2 - Display data in a line graph to show an increase or decrease over time
Analysis of Data
5.S.3 - Calculate the mean for a given set of data and use to describe a set of data
Students will make predictions that are based upon data analysis.
Predictions from Data
5.S.4 - Formulate conclusions and make predictions from graphs
Students will understand and apply concepts of probability.
Probability
5.S.5 - List the possible outcomes for a single-event experiment
5.S.6 - Record experiment results using fractions/ratios
5.S.7 - Create a sample space and determine the probability of a single event, given a simple experiment (e.g., rolling a number cube)
 
 
 
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