Grade 5 Math Workbook with Answers

Book excerpt: What is fifth grade math? Not all schools and teachers around the world cover the same topics in the same depth in 5th grade, yet at this stage the student is generally learning a variety of arithmetic and prealgebra skills. This fifth grade math workbook includes: decimal place values, arithmetic with decimals, arithmetic with fractions (including mixed numbers), multiplication with multiple digits, long division practice, data analysis with a variety of graphs, pattern recognition (additive and multiplicative relationships), geometric figures (including perimeter and area), measurement and unit conversions (customary and metric), a first introduction to working with variables, financial mathematics, and other fifth grade math and prealgebra skills. The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook to share his strategies for applying arithmetic and prealgebra skills. The answers to all of the exercises can be checked with a key at the back.