Students continue their work with multi-digit multiplication and division and the base-ten system in order to finalize fluency with multi-digit multiplication and extend division to two-digit divisors.
In Unit 2, students will build on their work on multi-digit multiplication and division from Grade 4 as well as their understanding of the structure of the base-ten system in Unit 1 to finalize fluency with multi-digit multiplication and extend multi-digit division to include two-digit divisors.
In Grade 4, students attained fluency with multi-digit addition and subtraction (4.NBT.4), a necessary skill for computing sums and differences in the standard algorithm for multiplication and division, respectively. Students also multiplied a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, as well as two two-digit numbers (4.NBT.5). By the end of Grade 4, students can compute those products using the standard algorithm, but “reason repeatedly about the connection between math drawings and written numerical work, help[ing] them come to see multiplication and division algorithms as abbreviations or summaries of their reasoning about quantities” (Progressions for the CCSSM, “Number and Operation in Base Ten, K-5", p. 14). Students also find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors (4.NBT.6). Similar to multiplication, by the end of Grade 4, students can compute these quotients using the standard algorithm alongside other strategies and representations so that the algorithms are meaningful rather than rote.
Unit 2 of Grade 5 begins with writing, evaluating, and interpreting simple numerical expressions (5.OA.1, 5.OA.2). This serves both to review basic multiplication and division facts, which supports major content later on in the unit, and as a way to record calculations that will grow increasingly complex as the unit progresses. Then, students solidify the standard algorithm for multiplication with the computational cases from Grade 4 before extending its use to larger and larger factors (5.NBT.5). Next, students follow a similar progression with division, first computing quotients involving cases from Grade 4 using a variety of strategies and then extending those methods to computations involving two-digit divisors. Note, however, that unlike multiplication, fluency with the standard division algorithm is not expected until Grade 6 (6.NS.2). Throughout the unit, students “learn to use [the] structure [of base-ten numbers] and the properties of operations to reduce computing a multi-digit…product or quotient to a collection of single-digit computations in different base-ten units” (MP.7) (Progressions for the CCSSM, “Number and Operation in Base Ten, K-5", p. 4). Further, “repeated reasoning (MP.8) that draws on the uniformity of the base-ten system is a part of this process” (Progressions for the CCSSM, “Number and Operation in Base Ten, K-5", p. 4).
Later this year, students will rely on their knowledge of whole-number computations to perform them with decimals (5.NBT.7). They will also write, evaluate, and interpret expressions with fractions and decimals in Units 5 and 6 (5.OA.1, 5.OA.2). This work "in Grade 5 prefigure[s] their later work with variable expressions" (6—8.EE) (OA Progression, p. 32). Further, students solidify fluency with the division algorithm and extend fluency with all four operations to decimals (6.EE.2—3). They also extend these computations to yet unknown parts of our number system, such as negative numbers (7.NS). Thus, by the end of this unit, students will be just shy of fluency with all four operations with whole numbers and ready to tackle them with other types of numbers while simultaneously starting to think beyond calculation of numerical expressions to the understanding and interpretation of them, hinting at a new world of mathematics—algebra.
Pacing: 23 instructional days (20 lessons, 2 flex days, 1 assessment day)
For guidance on adjusting the pacing for the 2020-2021 school year due to school closures, see our 5th Grade Scope and Sequence Recommended Adjustments.
This assessment accompanies Unit 2 and should be given on the suggested assessment day or after completing the unit.
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View Preview5.OA.A.1
Evaluate numerical expressions involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and grouping symbols.
5.OA.A.1
5.OA.A.2
Write expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret expressions without evaluating them.
5.OA.A.1
5.OA.A.2
Write expressions that represent real-world situations and evaluate them.
5.NBT.B.5
Multiply multiples of powers of ten. Estimate multi-digit products by rounding numbers to their largest place value.
5.NBT.B.5
Multiply two-digit, three-digit, and four-digit numbers by one-digit numbers.
5.NBT.B.5
Multiply two-digit numbers by two-digit numbers.
5.NBT.B.5
Multiply three-digit numbers by two-digit numbers.
5.NBT.B.5
Multiply four-digit numbers by two-digit numbers.
5.NBT.B.5
Multiply three- and four-digit numbers by three-digit numbers.
5.NBT.B.5
Multiply multi-digit numbers and assess the reasonableness of the product.
5.NBT.B.6
Divide multiples of powers of ten by multiples of ten without remainders. Estimate multi-digit quotients by rounding numbers to their largest place value.
5.NBT.B.6
Estimate multi-digit quotients by rounding numbers to compatible numbers.
5.NBT.B.6
Divide two-digit, three-digit, and four-digit dividends by one-digit divisors.
5.NBT.B.6
Divide two- and three-digit dividends by multiples of 10 with one-digit quotients and remainders in the ones place.
5.NBT.B.6
Divide two-digit dividends by two-digit divisors with one-digit quotients and remainders in the ones place.
5.NBT.B.6
Divide three-digit dividends by two-digit divisors with one-digit quotients and remainders in the ones place.
5.NBT.B.6
Divide three-digit dividends by two-digit divisors with two-digit quotients, reasoning about the decomposition of a remainder in any place.
5.NBT.B.6
Divide four-digit dividends by two-digit divisors with two- and three-digit quotients, reasoning about the decomposition of a remainder in any place.
5.NBT.B.6
Divide multi-digit numbers by one- and two-digit divisors and assess the reasonableness of the quotient.
5.OA.A.1
5.OA.A.2
5.NBT.B.5
5.NBT.B.6
Solve word problems involving multi-digit multiplication and division.
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