Mathematics / 5th Grade / Fluency Activities
The table below includes fluency activities that engage students in practicing skills appropriate for the unit, organized by the Topics of the unit. In each table, the left column identifies the applicable skills of each Topic, and the right column identifies one or more activities (and variations of those activities) that align to each of those skills. To learn more about each fluency activity, including optional variations to increase or decrease the cognitive complexity for students, click on the activity.
For each Topic, you can choose to practice each of the following skills with whatever frequency you’d like, but be sure students get sufficient practice for each of the targeted skills. For the skills with more than one activity listed, you may choose to use all or just some of the activities, depending on which students find most engaging. You can also spiral previously introduced activities into later Topics if students need additional practice on that skill. Do not introduce an activity before students are taught that material in the regular math lesson, since these activities assume a conceptual foundation has already been built.
For more guidance on incorporating fluency practice into your lessons, see our Teacher Tool on Procedural Skill and Fluency.
Key:
Approaching
Read multi-digit numbers aloud
4.NBT.A.2
Whole Class Activity
Choral Counting - Version 5
Read and write multi-digit numbers in multiple forms
2.NBT.A.3
Center Activity
Jigsaw - Version 1
Place multi-digit numbers on a number line
2.MD.B.6
2.NBT.A.4
3.NBT.A.1
4.NBT.A.3
Clothesline Math - Version 1
Compare multi-digit whole numbers
Number Clash - Version 1
Order multi-digit numbers
Order Up - Version 1
Round multi-digit numbers using a number line
Clothesline Math - Version 3
Compare multi-digit numbers using a number line
Clothesline Math - Version 2
Read decimal numbers aloud
4.NF.C.6
5.NBT.A.3.A
Choral Counting - Version 6
Place decimal numbers on a number line
5.NBT.A.3
5.NBT.A.4
Clothesline Math - Version 6
Compare decimal numbers
4.NF.C.7
5.NBT.A.3.B
Number Clash - Version 3 - Use Game Board D
Read and write decimal numbers to thousandths in multiple forms
Jigsaw - Version 3
Order decimal numbers to the thousandths
Order Up - Version 3
Compare decimal numbers using a number line
Clothesline Math - Version 7
Round decimal numbers using a number line
Clothesline Math - Version 8
Write and evaluate numerical expressions
5.OA.A.1
Number Bowling - Version 1
Multiply and divide within 100
3.OA.C.7
4.NBT.B.5
Four in a Row - Version 6
War - Version 2
Estimate products of multi-digit numbers
5.NBT.B.5
High or Low? - Version 2
Multiply multi-digit numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 4
Add multi-digit numbers
2.NBT.B.5
3.NBT.A.2
4.NBT.B.4
Hit the Target - Version 1
Multiply multi-digit numbers
Hit the Target - Version 3 - Use Game Board K, L, M and/or N
Get to __ - Version 3 - Use Game Board O, P, and/or Q
Estimate quotients of multi-digit numbers
4.NBT.B.6
5.NBT.B.6
6.NS.B.2
High or Low? - Version 3
Subtract multi-digit numbers
Hit the Target - Version 2
Divide multi-digit numbers
Hit the Target - Version 4 - Use Game Board R, S, and/or T
Get to __ - Version 4 - Use Game Board U and/ or V
Divide multi-digit numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 5
Count unit cubes to measure volume
5.MD.C.4
Count Em Up - Version 2
Multiply edge lengths to find the volume of right rectangular prisms
5.MD.C.5
Fill Up - Version 3
Classify flat figures based on properties
4.G.A.3
5.G.B.4
Triangle Grab - Version 1
Quadrilateral Blind Man’s Bluff - Version 1
Generate and identify equivalent fractions
3.NF.A.3.B
4.NF.A.1
5.NF.A.1
Fraction Connect Four - Version 1
Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators
4.NF.B.3
To the Max - Version 1
Add fractions using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 6
Estimate sums and differences of fractions
5.NF.A.2
More or Less - Version 1
Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
To the Max - Version 3
Subtract fractions using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 7
Add decimal numbers
5.NBT.B.7
6.NS.B.3
Get to __ - Version 5
Estimate sums and differences of decimals
High or Low? - Version 4
Subtract decimal numbers
Get to __ - Version 6
Add decimal numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 10
Add and subtract decimals
To the Max - Version 4
Subtract decimal numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 11
Estimate products of fractions
5.NF.B.4
5.NF.B.5
More or Less - Version 2
Multiply fractions using mental strategies
4.NF.B.4
Number Talks - Version 8 - fractions times whole numbers
Multiply fractions
Hit the Target - Version 5 - Use Game Board U
Number Talks - Version 8 - fractions times whole numbers OR fractions times fractions
Hit the Target - Version 5 - Use Game Board U and/or V
Four in a Row - Version 7
Number Talks - Version 8
Hit the Target - Version 5
Divide a whole number by a unit fraction or a unit fraction by a whole number
5.NF.B.7
To the Max - Version 5
Estimate products of decimals
High or Low? - Version 5
Multiply decimals using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 12
Multiply decimal numbers
Hit the Target - Version 6
Four in a Row - Version 8
Get to __ - Version 7
Estimate quotients of decimals
High or Low? - Version 6
Divide decimal numbers using mental strategies
Number Talks - Version 13
Divide decimal numbers
Hit the Target - Version 7
Get to __ - Version 8
Graph points in the coordinate plane
5.G.A.1
5.G.A.2
Jackplot - Version 1
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