Our fifth-grade math curriculum is designed to build essential math skills that students will use throughout their lives. It strengthens their understanding of number sense, place value, and estimation while reinforcing fluency with all four operations involving whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Students develop efficient problem-solving strategies, deepen their algebraic thinking through patterns, variables, and equations, and explore higher-level concepts that promote critical thinking. By blending skill mastery with real-world application, our curriculum lays a strong mathematical foundation for future success.

In this course, students will extend and apply many of the concepts they've learned to discover new types of relationships and new and efficient ways to solve problems. Students will learn and review ratios, decimals, percent, and operations with real numbers. Students then will apply those concepts to algebraic expressions and equations—from simple to multi-step—and will also examine word problems. Students will also explore proportional relationships through multiple representations and contexts. Students should expect a mix of discovery and practice, with an emphasis on real-world applications, critical thinking, and problem-solving. The course will have a cumulative component, focusing on topics throughout the year with different methods of review and assessment.

In this course, students will extend and apply many of the concepts they've learned to discover new types of relationships and new and efficient ways to solve problems. Students will learn and review ratios, decimals, percent, and operations with real numbers. Students then will apply those concepts to algebraic expressions and equations—from simple to multi-step—and will also examine word problems. Students will also explore proportional relationships through multiple representations and contexts. Students should expect a mix of discovery and practice, with an emphasis on real-world applications, critical thinking, and problem-solving. The course will have a cumulative component, focusing on topics throughout the year with different methods of review and assessment. Students in this course will cover all topics in Math 7 at a more rigorous pace, with a greater emphasis on problem solving. They also will delve into more complicated problem-solving techniques and additional topics of functions and systems of equations.

This course is the continuation of the two-year sequence which begins in Math 7. Concepts will be seamlessly integrated through the study of basic algebraic concepts by first reviewing the properties and applications of simplifying expressions and solving equations. The class will focus heavily on linear functions, solving systems of equations, inequalities, and quadratic functions. An in-depth study of computing and factoring polynomials will be applied to simplifying rational expressions and solving functions. Problem solving, understanding the connection to the real world, and abstract thinking will be emphasized. Cumulative review and the use of technology, including graphic calculators, are consistently integrated into this course.

This course is the continuation of the two-year sequence which begins in Math 7. Concepts will be seamlessly integrated through the study of basic algebraic concepts by first reviewing the properties and applications of simplifying expressions and solving equations. The class will focus heavily on linear functions, solving systems of equations, inequalities, and quadratic functions. An in-depth study of computing and factoring polynomials will be applied to simplifying rational expressions and solving functions. Problem solving, understanding the connection to the real world, and abstract thinking will be emphasized. Cumulative review and the use of technology, including graphic calculators, are consistently integrated into this course. The course will cover all concepts noted in Math 8 at a faster pace. Students in this course also will delve into more complicated problem-solving techniques and additional topics with functions and geometric applications.