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Mississippi Standards

Mississippi 5th Grade Math Standards

All 34 Mississippi math standards for 5th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Mississippi Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

34 standards

Standards for Mathematical Practice

8 standards
5.SMP.1
Work through multi-step problems with fractions, decimals and volume, try another route when stuck, and check that the result is reasonable.
5.SMP.2
Connect quantities to symbols, like writing 3/4 x 12 for the eggs in three quarters of a dozen and explaining what the answer stands for.
5.SMP.3
Explain why a fraction or decimal computation works using models, and test a classmate's claim, like multiplying always making a number bigger.
5.SMP.4
Represent real situations with expressions, coordinate graphs or volume models, like finding how many cubes fill a shoebox.
5.SMP.5
Choose tools such as grid paper, unit cubes, decimal models and coordinate grids, and use estimation to check work with decimals.
5.SMP.6
Use exact units like cubic centimeters, place parentheses correctly in expressions, and keep decimal places straight when calculating.
5.SMP.7
Use structure, like seeing 3 x (8 + 7) as three times a sum, or that each place is one tenth of the place to its left.
5.SMP.8
Notice repeated patterns, like what happens to the digits when multiplying by 10, 100 or 1,000, to build shortcuts for decimal work.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

3 standards
5.OA.1
Evaluate expressions with parentheses and other grouping symbols, like 3 × (4 + 2), working inside the symbols first.
Common Core 5.OA.1
5.OA.2
Write simple expressions for calculations, like (5 + 9) x 3 for add 5 and 9 then triple, and interpret what an expression shows without computing it.
5.OA.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.1
Explain that in a number like 5.55, each 5 is worth ten times the 5 to its right and one tenth of the 5 to its left.
5.NBT.2
Explain how the zeros and the decimal point move when a number is multiplied or divided by a power of 10, and write powers of 10 with exponents.
Common Core 5.NBT.2
5.NBT.3
Write decimals to thousandths as numerals, in words and in expanded form, like 2.507, and compare two of them digit by digit using >, = or <.
5.NBT.4
Round decimals to any place, like 3.467 to the nearest hundredth.
Common Core 5.NBT.4
5.NBT.5
Multiply multi-digit whole numbers, like 346 × 27, fluently with the standard algorithm.
Common Core 5.NBT.5
5.NBT.6
Divide up to four-digit numbers by two-digit numbers with place-value strategies, and show the thinking with equations, arrays or area models.
Common Core 5.NBT.6
5.NBT.7
Compute with decimals to hundredths in all four operations using blocks, drawings and place value strategies, then connect it to a written method and explain it.

Number and Operations—Fractions

7 standards
5.NF.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.2
Solve word problems that add or subtract fractions with unlike denominators, and use benchmark fractions like 1/2 to check whether an answer makes sense.
Common Core 5.NF.2
5.NF.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.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.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.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.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.1
Convert between units of different sizes in one customary or metric system, like 250 cm to 2.5 m, and use conversions in multi-step real-world problems.
5.MD.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.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.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.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.1
Plot and locate points on a coordinate grid with an ordered pair like (3, 5), going across on the x-axis first and then up on the y-axis.
Common Core 5.G.1
5.G.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.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.4
Sort two-dimensional shapes into a hierarchy by their properties, like quadrilaterals, then parallelograms, then rectangles, then squares.
Common Core 5.G.4

The official Mississippi documents

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