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All the Math Your 5th Grader Needs to Succeed This book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence. Features include: • A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 5 • Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scores—in class and on achievement tests • A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work • End-of-chapter tests to measure students’ progress • A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book • More than 1,000 math problems with answers Topics covered: • Operations with multi-digit numbers and decimals • Place values • Order of operations • Properties of addition and multiplication • Operations with fractions and mixed numbers • Customary and metric units of measure, including temperature • Solving problems by graphing points on the coordinate plane • Classifying polygons based on their properties • Calculating area and volume • Solving problems using data line plots • Analyzing patterns and relationships • Word problems