Grade 5 Mathematics Common Core Curriculum Standards
Bold-faced standards are the MDIRSS essential standards and the standards in regular font are supporting standards. Click on the green MDIRSS standards to see the unpacked version, list of resources, and corresponding performance rubric for that standard.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking (5.OA)
5.MA.OA.1 Write and interpret numerical expressions.
5.MA.OA.2 Analyze patterns and relationships.
Number and Operations in Base Ten (5.NBT)
5.MA.NBT.1 Understand the place value system.
5.MA.NBT.2 Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
Number and Operations—Fractions (5.NF)
5.MA.NF.1 Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
Measurement and Data (5.MD)
5.MA.MD.1 Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
5.MA.MD.2 Represent and interpret data.
Geometry (5.G)
5.MA.G.1 Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
5.MA.G.2 Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
Mathematical Practices
Operations and Algebraic Thinking (5.OA)
5.MA.OA.1 Write and interpret numerical expressions.
Number and Operations in Base Ten (5.NBT)
5.MA.NBT.1 Understand the place value system.
1. Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
5.MA.NBT.2 Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
Number and Operations—Fractions (5.NF)
5.MA.NF.1 Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
1. Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators. For example, 2/3 + 5/4 = 8/12 + 15/12 = 23/12. (In general, a/b + c/d = (ad + bc)/bd.)
2. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole, including cases of unlike denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. Use benchmark fractions and number sense of fractions to estimate mentally and assess the reasonableness of answers. For example, recognize an incorrect result 2/5 + 1/2 = 3/7, by observing that 3/7 < 1/2.
5.MA.NF.2 Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
3. Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator (a/b = a ÷ b). Solve word problems involving division of whole
numbers leading to answers in the form of fractions or mixed numbers, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. For example, interpret 3/4 as the result of dividing 3 by 4, noting that 3/4 multiplied by 4 equals 3, and that when 3 wholes are shared equally among 4 people each person has a share of size 3/4. If 9 people want to share a 50-pound sack of rice equally by weight, how many pounds of rice should each person get? Between what two whole numbers does your answer lie?
operations a × q ÷ b. For example, use a visual fraction model to show (2/3) × 4 = 8/3, and create a story context for this equation. Do the same with (2/3) × (4/5) = 8/15. (In general, (a/b) × (c/d) = ac/bd.)
show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths. Multiply fractional side lengths to find areas of
rectangles, and represent fraction products as rectangular areas.
indicated multiplication.
(recognizing multiplication by whole numbers greater than 1 as a familiar case); explaining why multiplying a given number by
a fraction less than 1 results in a product smaller than the given number; and relating the principle of fraction equivalence a/b =
(n×a)/(n×b) to the effect of multiplying a/b by 1.
4 ÷ (1/5), and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient. Use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that
4 ÷ (1/5) = 20 because 20 × (1/5) = 4.
Measurement and Data (5.MD)
5.MA.MD.1 Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
5.MA.MD.2 Represent and interpret data.
5.MA.MD.3 Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.
Geometry (5.G)
5.MA.G.1 Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
5.MA.G.2 Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
1Students able to multiply fractions in general can develop strategies to divide fractions in general, by reasoning about the relationship between multiplication and division. But division of a fraction by a fraction is not a requirement at this grade.


