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Louisiana Standards

Louisiana 5th Grade Math Standards

All 26 Louisiana math standards for 5th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Louisiana Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

26 standards

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

3 standards
5.OA.A.1
Evaluate expressions that contain parentheses or brackets, like 3 x [10 - (2 + 4)] = 12, and use these symbols when writing expressions.
5.OA.A.2
Write expressions with whole numbers, fractions and decimals, like 1/2 x (6 + 0.4) for half the sum of 6 and 0.4, and interpret them without calculating.
5.OA.B.3
Build two number patterns from two rules, compare their matching terms, and graph the pairs as points on a coordinate grid.
Common Core 5.OA.3

Number and Operations in Base Ten

7 standards
5.NBT.A.1
Know that each place is worth ten times the place to its right and one tenth of the place to its left.
Common Core 5.NBT.1
5.NBT.A.2
Explain patterns in zeros and decimal point shifts when multiplying or dividing by powers of 10, and write powers of 10 with exponents, like 2.1 x 10² = 210.
5.NBT.A.3
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.NBT.A.4
Round decimals to any place, like 3.467 to the nearest hundredth.
Common Core 5.NBT.4
5.NBT.B.5
Multiply multi-digit whole numbers, like 346 × 27, fluently with the standard algorithm.
Common Core 5.NBT.5
5.NBT.B.6
Divide whole numbers of up to four digits by two-digit numbers, like 4,368 ÷ 24 = 182, with place value strategies, and show the work with equations, arrays or area models.
5.NBT.B.7
Compute sums, differences, products and quotients of decimals to hundredths with models and place value, and explain the reasoning in writing, like 0.6 x 0.4 = 0.24.

Number and Operations—Fractions

7 standards
5.NF.A.1
Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators by rewriting them with a common denominator, like 2/3 + 1/4 using twelfths.
Common Core 5.NF.1
5.NF.A.2
Solve word problems adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, and use benchmarks like 1/2 to estimate and check that answers make sense.
5.NF.B.3
Read a fraction as a division, like 3/4 means 3 divided by 4, and solve sharing problems whose answers are fractions or mixed numbers.
Common Core 5.NF.3
5.NF.B.4
Multiply a fraction by a whole number or by another fraction, like 2/3 × 4/5 = 8/15, and find the area of a rectangle with fractional sides.
Common Core 5.NF.4
5.NF.B.5
Tell, without multiplying, whether a product will be bigger or smaller than one factor, since multiplying by a fraction less than 1 shrinks a number.
Common Core 5.NF.5
5.NF.B.6
Solve real-world problems that multiply fractions and mixed numbers, like how much flour is in half of a recipe that calls for 2 1/2 cups.
Common Core 5.NF.6
5.NF.B.7
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

Measurement and Data

5 standards
5.MD.A.1
Convert between units of different sizes in one measurement system, like 5 cm to 0.05 m or 9 ft to 108 in, and use conversions to solve multi-step real-world problems.
5.MD.B.2
Make a line plot with measurements in halves, quarters and eighths, and use fraction operations to answer questions about it.
Common Core 5.MD.2
5.MD.C.3
Understand volume as the space inside a solid, measured by how many unit cubes fill it without gaps or overlaps.
Common Core 5.MD.3
5.MD.C.4
Measure volume by counting unit cubes, in cubic centimeters, cubic inches, cubic feet or made-up units.
Common Core 5.MD.4
5.MD.C.5
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.G.A.1
Explain how two perpendicular axes form a coordinate grid with the origin at 0, and use an ordered pair to locate a point, moving along the x-axis first, then the y-axis.
5.G.A.2
Graph real-world data as points in the first quadrant of a coordinate grid and explain what each point’s coordinates mean.
Common Core 5.G.2
5.G.B.3
Know that a property of a category of shapes holds for all its subcategories, like every square has four right angles because a square is a rectangle.
Common Core 5.G.3
5.G.B.4
Sort quadrilaterals into a hierarchy by their properties, defining a trapezoid as having at least one pair of parallel sides.

The official Louisiana documents

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