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Grade-5
GRADE 5 MATH
Day 1: Have your child solve this problem; Six friends cut a pizza into 18 slices. They shared the slices equally. What fraction did each one get? (1/6) How many slices did each one get? (3).
Day 2: Have your child solve this problem: You had $6.48. You spent $2.83. How much do you have left? ($3.65)
Day 3: Have your child write the largest and the smallest numbers with these digits; 71029 (97210) (01279).
Day 4: Have your child identify these amounts;
- 5 dimes = ? pennies (50)
- 4 quarters= ? dimes (10)
- 10 quarters = ? nickels (50)
Day 5: Have your child solve these problems;
- 177 + 285= ? (462)
- ? = 479 - 237 (242)
- 559 +130 + 37= ? (726)
- 4.07 - 1.85= ? (2.22)
Day 6: Have your child write these numbers.;
- forty five thousand twenty five (45,025)
- One million sixteen thousand seven hundred five ( 1,016,705)
- Seven billion, four hundred million (7,400,000,000)
Day 7: Have your child solve;
- In triangle QRS, if angle Q measures 600 and angle R measures 400 What is the measure of angle S? (800).
- In triangle ABC, if angle A measures 350 and angle B measures 250, what is the measure of angle C ? (1200.
Day 8: Have your child write these decimals using digits;
- four hundred and twelve hundreds (4.12)
- three hundred eighteen and twenty five thousandths (318.025)
Day 9: Have your child identify the proper values in this number; 524,385, 752,
1,499;
- Draw a line under the digit in the tens place
- Draw a circle around the digit in the thousandths place
- Cross out the digit in the hundredths place
- Draw a line over the digit in the hundred thousands place.
Day 10: Have your child solve these multiplication problems:
- (266) ? = 7 x 38
- 108 x 8= ? (864)
- (43,200) ? = 60 x 720
- 251 x 16 = ? (4016)
- 24 x 40 = ? (960)
- 47 x 35 = ? (1645)
- 251 x 16 = ? (4016).
Day 11: Have your child solve a two step problem; Steven and Shirley are in charge
of ordering pizzas for their class party. There are 22 students in their class. A large
pizza serves about 6 people and costs $11.45. A extra-large pizza serves about 8 people
and costs $13.75. Each extra ingredient costs $.50 on a large pizza and $.75 on an extra
large pizza. How much would it cost to serve the class if Shirley ordered large pizzas and
only six people wanted extra toppings?
Make up another two step problem using this data.
Day 12: Normally Shanika's body temperature is 98.60 F. This morning she
woke up with a fever of 102.40F. By noon her temperature had gone down 1.7
degrees. How many degrees above normal was her temperature at noon?
Day 13: Have your child tell you the items that can be drawn and the items that cannot be drawn.
- A triangle with two right angles.
- A quadrilateral with opposites sides parallel.
- A rectangle with no sides equal.
- A quadrilateral with opposite sides parrallel.
Day 15: Have your child write;
- one and three tenths as a mixed number. (1 3/10)
- Write one and three tenths as a decimal (1.3).
- Write five and seven hundredths as a decimal (5.07)
- As a mixed number. ( 5 7/100)
- Write four and one fifth as a mixed number (4 1/5).
- As a decimal (4.2)
Day 16: Have your child name and write the values for the exponential notations;
- A) 1012 (one trillion)
- B) 106 (one million)
- C) 105 (One hundred thousand)
- D) 103 (one thousand).
Day 17: Have your child solve this problem; Jesse earns $13 per day, pet-sitting for her neighbors dog. If she pet sits for 9 days how much did she earn? ($117.00)
Day 18: Have your child solve these problems;
- a)24 x 9 = ? (216)
- b) 30 x 25 = ? (750);
- c) 211 x 46 =? (9706);
- d) 205 - 148 = ? (57)
- e) 8.05 - 1.55 = ? (6.5)
- f) 140 divided by 20 = ? (7)
Day 20: Have your child solve this problem; For relay races the gym teacher divided
the class into 4 teams with an equal number of students. There were 30 students in the
class . Extra students sat out the race.
- How many members were on each team? (7)
- How many students were left over? (2)
- How could the class be divided so that no one is left out? (e: Two teams of 15, six teams of 5 etc.)
Day 21: Have your child solve this problem; David earns D dollars in an hour. David
earns $5.00 an hour more than Jason. How much does he earn per hour?; Which formula would
solve the problem?
- a) 5 x J
- b) J - 5
- c) J + 5
- d) J + J (J+5)
Day 22: Beverly's aunt earns twice as much as Beverly. How much does she earn per
hour?
- a) 2 x B
- b) 2 + B
- c) B -2
- d) 1/2 x B (2xB).
Day 23: Have your child solve these fraction problems;
- A) 5/8 + 3/8 + ? (8/8 or 1)
- B) 3/4 + 1 1/2 = ? (2 1/4)
- C) 1 - 2/3 =? (1/3)
- D)5/8- 1/8=? (4/8 or 1/2)
- E)3 1/2 + 1 1/8=? (4 5/8)
- F) 2 3/8 - 1 1/2=? (7/8)
Day 24: Have your child name the equivalent fractions;
- 3/4, 5/8, and 12/16 (3/4 and 12/16)
- 5/8, 6/8, and 10/16 (5/8 and 10/16)
- 1 1/4, 4 1/4, and 5/4 (1 1/4 and 5/4)
- 1/3, 2/6, 4/12 and 4/15 (1/3, 2/6, and 4/12)
Day 25: Have your child compare. Is 13/12 greater than or less than 1/2? (greater
than)
Day 26: Have your child write the decimal name for 3/10 (0.3)
Day 27: Have your child answer this question; If you square me the answer is 64. Who am I? (8)
Day 28: Have your child answer these questions true or false?
- 5 and 6 are factors of 40 (T)
- 3 and 9 are factors of 36 (F)
- 4 and 7 are factors of 24 (T)
Day 29: Have your child identify these numbers as prime or composite;
- 7 (prime)
- 13 (prime)
- 35 (composite)
- 27 (composite)
- 23 (prime)
- 111 (composite)
- 12 (composite)
- 66 (composite)
- 19 (prime)
Day 30: Have your child solve; Add 300 and 800. Subtract 700. Double the result (800)
GRADE 5 READING
Day 1: Have your child read an article on a place she would like to visit. (Travel section, Sunday paper)
Day 2: Have your child plan a barbecue menu. Make a shopping list.
Day 3: Have your child follow a recipe for making a cake for dessert.
Day 4: Have your child read a paper and see what activities are going on in your area.
Day 5: Here is a game, "What is it?" Each player thinks of clues about an object. Have your child play with a friend. First correct answer wins.
Day 7: Have your child start a good book. Read some each day.
Day 8: Have your child read the information from his favorite cereal box. Is it healthy? Why or why not?
Day 9: Have your child use 4 adjectives to describe her new clothes.
Day 10: Have your child read a story to a younger sibling.
Day 11: Have your child write a letter to someone at camp or away and ask for a return letter.
Day 12: Have your child learn some funny jokes or riddles. Try them out on 3 friends. Go to the library and pick a good book.
Day 13: Have your child pick a favorite sports player (tennis, baseball, soccer) Keep simple charts of weekly scores.
Day 14: Have your child rearrange the letters in this word to make one word; "O Wonder".
Day 15: Have your child find the plurals to these words; cactus, sky, and taxi.
Day 16: Have your child plan an outing with a younger sibling or walk a neighbor's dog. Write about it.
Day 17: Have your child pick a science fiction or mystery book from the library . READ.
Day 18: Have your child find a job in the want ads that he would like to do. Have him jot down his qualifications as if he were going on an interview.
Day 19: Have your child think of 5 palindromas such as pop, madam, and civic.
Day 20: Have your child cut cartoons from a newspaper and rewrite the dialogue. Change the ending.
Day 21: Have your child unscramble car words; adzam (mazda), ootayt (toyota), dorf (ford), rsyelcrh (chrysler).
Day 22: Have your child exchange books with a friend.
Day 23: Check your child's listening skills. Read her a short story or article and ask her questions.
Day 24: Have your child write a nonsense poem.
Day 25: Have your child write a scary poem.
Day 26: Have your child organize his dresser or closet. List ten items in each.
Day 27: Have your child write a list of things she would take if a friend showed up today to take her to the shore.
Day 28: Have your child cut out 3 articles without headlines. Write a new headline.
Day 29: Have your child keep a small list or diary of what he plans to do each day.
Day 30: Have your child write down all the things she did this month.