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Academic Content Standards Guides
Academic Content Standards Guide for parents of children in grade 5.
 
Audio/Interactive SS Textbook
This interactive text will allow students to view the full text, illustrations, maps, and support features as well as hear the text read aloud.
 
Author websites
List of about 60 authors who have actually replied to student letters. Includes Christopher, Cleary, Giff, Naylor, Polacco, Prelutsky, VanAllsburg, etc.
 
Division
Use number lines to explore and solve division problems.
 
Fact Practice
Math 24 game practices basic facts and beyond. It is a good way to increase flexibilty and speed with numbers. Each student has a password and username in their assignment notebooks.
Students can practice their facts and receive a % of facts correct.
 
Factor practice
This actually lets the kids play the Factor 40 game either against a friend or on the computer.  Great way for kids to practice their multiplication facts, too.
 
Manipulatives
Use many different types of manipulatives to solve math problems for all grades. Many of the manipulatives you move and solve with right on the screen.
Geoboards to practice fractions!
 
Math
Aunty Math has challenge problems for grades K-5. Every other week there's a new challenge. Challenges also involve reading.
 
Math
Every Wednesday evening a new brainteaser is added to this site. You can select from non-routine problems for grades 3-4, grades 5-6 or grades 7-8. Can choose to see helpful hints if needed.
This game helps you to practice equivalent fractions. As you go up in levels you get a greater variety of fractions. So make sure you play several levels!
Look at the relationship between the heights of different parallelograms.
 
Math-Coordinate Grids
Use ordered pairs to locate planets.
 
Math--Geometry
Explore and play with prisms. BE SURE TO SCROLL to the bottom of the page. Take time with the Net Box...you can change to different types of prisms and the net will unfold and refold for you. You can also pause it.
This activity allows the user to manipulate three-dimensional figures to experiment with surface area and volume. Figures in three dimensions have length, depth (also often called width), and height, as we know. These three dimensions can be used to determine the volume (space taken up by) and surface area (sum of the areas of all of the faces or surfaces of the object).
 
Ratios
Go through several ratios problems that use models. You can also take a quiz and have it graded. It does not cover part to part and part to whole.
 
Social Studies - Maps
Practice locating All 50 states on this site!
Test your knowledge of locations of most of the states in the United States. Errors sometimes occur but this site is still worth your time.
SHOW®USA offers a mapping application that displays a wide variety of information about the fifty states in a visual format. The site includes more than 141 maps with data about everything from Spanish speakers to foreclosures to Bigfoot sightings.
This site has tutorials and quizzes on the states, rivers, oceans, capitals, lakes and regions. Please focus on the states, lakes, and rivers.