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Wisconsin Standards

Wisconsin 5th Grade Math Standards

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

26 standards

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

3 standards
M.5.OA.A.1
Evaluate expressions with parentheses and other grouping symbols, like 3 × (4 + 2), working inside the symbols first.
Common Core 5.OA.1
M.5.OA.A.2
Write simple expressions for spoken calculations and read them without solving, like seeing that 3 times a sum is three times as big as the sum.
M.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
M.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
M.5.NBT.A.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
M.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
M.5.NBT.A.4
Estimate answers to real problems with decimals using mental math, benchmarks, friendly numbers or rounding, and decide if the estimate is too high or low.
M.5.NBT.B.5
Multiply multi-digit whole numbers flexibly, with strategies or written methods built on place value, area models and number properties.
M.5.NBT.B.6
Divide numbers up to four digits by two-digit numbers to find whole-number quotients, using place value strategies shown in equations, arrays or area models.
M.5.NBT.B.7
Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to hundredths with models and place-value strategies, and explain the reasoning.
Common Core 5.NBT.7

Number and Operations—Fractions

7 standards
M.5.NF.A.1
Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers by renaming them as equal fractions, like 2/3 + 5/4 = 8/12 + 15/12, and justify with models and equations.
M.5.NF.A.2
Solve fraction word problems about the same whole with models or equations, and estimate with benchmarks to catch wrong answers, like 2/5 + 1/2 is not 3/7.
M.5.NF.B.3
Read a fraction as fair sharing, like 3 wholes split among 4 people gives each 3/4, and solve sharing word problems with fraction or mixed-number answers.
M.5.NF.B.4
Multiply a fraction by a whole number or another fraction, including mixed numbers, using models and stories, and find areas of rectangles with fraction sides.
M.5.NF.B.5
Predict whether a product will be bigger or smaller than one factor by looking at the other, like multiplying by a fraction under 1 makes it smaller.
M.5.NF.B.6
Solve real-world problems multiplying fractions and mixed numbers with tape diagrams, area models or number lines, and estimate to check that answers make sense.
M.5.NF.B.7
Divide a unit fraction by a whole number, like 1/3 ÷ 4 = 1/12, and a whole number by a unit fraction, like 4 ÷ 1/5 = 20, with models and stories.

Measurement and Data

5 standards
M.5.MD.A.1
Convert between units in the same measurement system, like 5 cm to 0.05 m, and use the conversions in multi-step problems.
Common Core 5.MD.1
M.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
M.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
M.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
M.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
M.5.G.A.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
M.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
M.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
M.5.G.B.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 Wisconsin documents

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