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May 2022
Dear Parents and Students:
Fifth grade is a very big year! We learn many new math skills throughout the year. Mastery of all these skills is extremely important in order to develop a solid math foundation. During fifth grade math we will add onto fourth grade skills, so any time spent learning or reinforcing these concepts will be very beneficial for your child. Each year builds upon the previous year’s skills in math. Any areas your child has difficulty, you may want to give them additional practice. Student mastery of the basic math skills is as important to success in future mathematical procedures and reasoning as learning the alphabet is to reading and writing.
During fifth grade we spend much of the year working with fractions/decimals. Like this past year, it is absolutely crucial that your child know their times tables when entering fifth grade. Along with practicing the other additional skills necessary, please work with your child on memorizing their times tables (0-12.) Please also know their division facts for tables 0 through 12.
There are many fun activities, games, and website that are available on the internet, through the App store on iPads and iPhones, and on the Google Play store on Androids that can allow your child to have fun while also practicing their skills.
Below I will list some of the websites that you and your child can work on to maintain their skills, as well as to better the ones they need practice on.
Please have a safe and happy summer, and I am looking forward to an amazing school year teaching your children.
Thank you,
Mrs. Bobst
Excellent websites for fun learning and reinforcement of math skills:
www.wildmath.com Select “Play the game”. Select addition, subtraction or multiplication and grade. You can race to beat your time.
www.aplusmath.com Go under “Flashcards” or “Game Room” on the left side of
the screen. They can practice adding, subtracting and multiplying. It’s Very important to know the addition, subtraction and multiplication facts from memorization or within a couple seconds.
www.mathisfun.com Select numbers then Math Trainer for adding, subtracting
and multiplication. Or at the home screen select games and pick a game to play.
www.illuminations.nctm.org Select activities then select grade level. Click on
Search.
www.aaamath.com At the top pick “Third” or “Fourth” for a challenge.
Choose any of the activities like multiplication then select “play” option toward the top of the screen. 20 Questions and Countdown games are good ones.
www.funbrain.com Lots of fun games to choose from
Other games and activities you can play:
Take a deck of cards and remove the face cards (kings, queens, jacks). Aces are one. Divide the cards evenly among 2 players. Each player flips over a card. The first one to multiply the numbers correctly wins the cards. After going through the pile of cards, the player with the most cards wins. You can do a multiplication version also.