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Alabama Standards

Alabama 5th Grade Math Standards

All 23 Alabama math standards for 5th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Alabama State Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

23 standards

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

2 standards
5.1
Write, evaluate and explain four-operation expressions with grouping symbols, using commutative, associative and distributive properties, in one- or two-step problems.
5.2
Build two number patterns from two given rules, fill in an input/output table, then compare matching terms, form ordered pairs and graph them on a coordinate plane.

Operations with Numbers: Base Ten

6 standards
5.3
Show with models that each place, decimals included, is ten times the place to its right, and explain zero and decimal patterns when multiplying or dividing by powers of 10.
5.4
Read and write decimals to thousandths, like 347.392, in words and expanded form, and compare two decimals digit by digit.
Common Core 5.NBT.3
5.5
Round decimals to the nearest thousandth using place value, like 4.2768 rounds to 4.277.
5.6
Multiply multi-digit whole numbers, like 346 × 27, fluently with the standard algorithm.
Common Core 5.NBT.5
5.7
Divide up to four-digit numbers by two-digit numbers with place value strategies, finding quotients and remainders, and explain the work with equations, arrays or area models.
5.8
Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to the hundredths using models, drawings and place value strategies, explain the method, and solve real-world problems.

Operations with Numbers: Fractions

7 standards
5.9
Solve word problems adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, using models or equations, and check if answers make sense with benchmark fractions like 1/2.
5.10
Find sums and differences of fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators by swapping in equivalent fractions, like 1/2 + 1/3 = 3/6 + 2/6.
5.11
Solve word problems where dividing whole numbers gives a fraction or mixed number answer, seeing a fraction as division, like 3/4 = 3 ÷ 4, and using models or equations.
5.12
Multiply fractions by whole numbers and by fractions with area, set or number line models and stories, and find rectangle areas with fraction sides by tiling and multiplying.
5.13
Treat multiplication as resizing, judging a product against a factor without multiplying, like knowing 5 × 3/4 is less than 5 and 5 × 3/2 is more, and explain why.
5.14
Solve real-world problems that multiply fractions and mixed numbers, showing them with fraction models, drawings or equations, like 2 1/2 batches of a 3/4 cup recipe.
5.15
Divide a unit fraction by a whole number and a whole number by a unit fraction, like 1/3 ÷ 4 = 1/12 and 4 ÷ 1/5 = 20, and use this in real-world problems.
Common Core 5.NF.7

Data Analysis

1 standard
5.16
Make a line plot of measurements in halves, quarters and eighths of a unit, then use all four operations with fractions to answer questions about the plotted data.

Measurement

3 standards
5.17
Convert between larger and smaller units in the same measurement system, like 5 cm to 0.05 m, and use the conversions in multi-step real-world problems.
5.18
Recognize volume as a property of solid figures and measure it by packing unit cubes with no gaps, counting cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft or nonstandard units.
5.19
Find the volume of a box-shaped prism with the formulas V = l × w × h and V = b × h, and add up the volumes of two prisms joined together.
Common Core 5.MD.5

Geometry

4 standards
5.20
Plot points in quadrant one of a coordinate plane and explain what their coordinates mean in real-world and math problems.
5.21
Sort triangles by their sides as isosceles, equilateral or scalene and by their angles as acute, obtuse, right or equiangular.
5.22
Arrange quadrilaterals in a family tree by their properties, like seeing every square as a rectangle and every rectangle as a parallelogram.
5.23
Explain that properties shared by a whole category of flat shapes hold for every subcategory, like all rectangles have four right angles, so squares do too.

The official Alabama documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Alabama's standards, not the official wording, which Alabama State Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.