Grade 5 Math Investigations
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Recommended Web Links:National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: Online exercises through which children can explore and examine math concepts while at home. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/grade_g_2.html MATH 5 Live: Math videos that address grade 5 math concepts. Figure This!: Math challenges for families sponsored by the National Councul of Teachers of Mathematics Timez Attack: The ultimate multiplication table video game. Free download available of base version. INVESTIGATIONS: Everyone can create the necessary opportunities that help children learn and become confident with mathematics: parents/families/caregivers, teachers, policy makers, principals, and administrators—by working together and independently to achieve the common goal of improving student learning. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Features weekly problems like the one shown here: Fraction Action (Leedy 1994) is a story about a classroom full of animals learning about fractions. In the second chapter, "Get Ready, Get Set," the class is dividing groups of items equally. If you have 24 marbles, how many would be in a set if the marbles were divided into fourths? What about eighths? What if you started with 36 marbles? If 1/4 of the set is 12 marbles, how many are in the whole set? http://www.nctm.org/resources/elementary.aspx
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