Unit 1: Factors, Multiples and Leftovers Linking Multiplication and Division
Goals
Chapter 1: Development of mathematical reasoning power with multiplication
Chapter 2: Division and its relationship to multiplication and addition
Unit 2: Unraveling the Mystery of the MoLi Stone Exploring Place Value and Numeration
Goals
Chapter 1: Deepen number sense and understanding of the base-ten system by exploring different ways to represent and regroup numbers
Chapter 2: Explore the concept of regrouping and renaming to help provide deeper insight for why we regroup
Chapter 3: Understand role of symbols in different number systems
Chapter 4: Create own numeration system by examining and analyzing prior skills and activities done on grouping, symbols, type of numeration system, base of the system, and the use of zero
Unit 3: In Search of the Yeti Measuring Up, Down and All Around Goals
Chapter 1: Process of measurement; length and how to measure it
Chapter 2: Estimation and finding the area of regular and irregular shapes building a deep understanding of the concept of area
Chapter 3: Liquid volume and capacity using physical models and continuing to practice estimating and measuring
4th Grade
Unit 1: How Big is Big? Understanding and Using Large Numbers
Goals
Chapter 1: Reading and writing numbers up to 1,000,000. Comparing, ordering, adding, and subtracting numbers up to 10,000. Using numbers up to 100,000 to add, subtract, multiply, and divide distances.
Chapter 2: Solving problems with large numbers involving estimation and calculations.
Unit 2: Awesome Algebra Looking for Patterns and Generalizations
Goals
Chapter 1: Creating and extending growing patterns and generalizing rules for growing or repeating patterns. Developing predictions and generalizations for finding any term in a sequence.
Chapter 2: Investigating patterns with multiples. Generalizing patterns in the base-ten system. Exploring relationships in arrays.
Chapter 3: Identifying and using patterns such as rounding to a specific place value. Applying the associative and commutative properties in mental math.
Unit 3: Treasures from the Attic Exploring Fractions
Goals
Chapter 1: Recognize and generate equivalent fractions less than 1. Compare and order fractions. Investigate non-congruent but equivalent parts of a whole. Find fractional areas of rectangles.
Chapter 2: Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers.
Unit 4: Digging for Data Collecting Displaying and Analyzing Data
Goals
Chapter 1: Exploring rates. Creating and understanding line plots. Creating, organizing, representing and interpreting data in an experiment-based project.
Chapter 2: Posing and answering questions about data using graphs. Using surveys, categorical and numerical data. Analyzing and reporting results of data collection.
Chapter 3: Creating pie graphs, pictographs, line plots, scatter plots. Working with line plots and scatter plots using fractional values.
5th Grade
Unit 1: At the Mall with Algebra Working with Variables and Equations
Goals
Chapter 1: Using variables to represent changing quantities. Solving equations for unknowns by working backwards.
Chapter 2: Using organized lists, substitution, the commutative property and properties of zero to solve sets of equations with two unknowns. Writing and solving equations.
Unit 2: The Tenths Street Pet Sanctuary Understanding and Using Decimals
Goals
Chapter 1: Exploring the density property of decimals, rounding, comparing, and ordering decimals, decimal equivalence. Adding and subtracting decimals.
Chapter 2: Multiplying and dividing decimals.
Unit 3: Treasures from the Attic Exploring Fractions
Goals
Chapter 1: Recognize and generate equivalent fractions less than 1. Compare and order fractions. Investigate non-congruent but equivalent parts of a whole. Find fractional areas of rectangles.
Chapter 2: Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers.
Unit 4: Getting Into Shapes Exploring Relationships Among 2-D and 3-D Shapes
Goals
Chapter 1: Discovering and comparing the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Exploring relationships among quadrilaterals.
Chapter 2: Exploring translations, reflections, and rotations. Creating transformations on the coordinate plane. Creating three-dimensional shapes using transformations.