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media type="custom" key="24473096" width="220" height="220" align="left" Everyday Math Unit 1--Volume and Area Skills learned in this unit:


 * Using Student Reference Books
 * Finding area of rectangles
 * Multiplying two factors
 * Finding volume of rectangular prisms

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Everyday Math Unit 2--Place Value and Operations Skills learned in this unit:


 * Write simple expressions to model situations in which no more than two operations are involved
 * Reason about the relative value of simple expressions without evaluating them
 * Use place value understanding to write whole numbers in expanded form
 * Identify the values of a given whole number
 * Write whole numbers in which digits represent given values
 * Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents 10 times what it represents in the place to its right
 * Translate between powers of 10 in exponential notation and standard notation
 * Correctly multiply a hole number by a power of ten
 * Notice patterns in the number of zeros in a product when multiplying a whole number by a power of ten
 * Use a strategy to multiply whole numbers
 * Understand the basic steps of the U.S. traditional multiplication algorithm and successfully apply it to 1-digit by multi-digit problems and 2-digit by 2-digit problems in which one factor is less than 20
 * Perform one-step unit conversions within the same measurement system
 * Use conversions to solve real-world problems when necessary conversions are identified
 * Use traditional division algorithm with up to 3-digit dividends and 1-digit or simple 2-digit divisors

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Everyday Math Unit 3--Fraction Concepts (Addition and Subtraction) Skills learned in this unit:


 * Use tools and visual models to generate equivalent fractions and to add fractions with unlike denominators when only one fraction needs to be replaced with an equivalent fraction
 * Use tools and visual models to solve number stories involving addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators
 * Identify benchmarks close to fractions less than or equal to 2 and use them to make reasonable estimates for fraction sums and differences
 * Recognize that a fraction a/b is the result of dividing a by b
 * Use tools and visual models to solve whole-number division problems that have fraction or mixed number answers
 * Use tools and visual models to rename mixed numbers and fractions greater than one
 * Solve fraction-of problems to build a conceptual foundation for multiplication of fractions by whole numbers
 * Find a unit fraction of a whole number by partitioning the whole number into the appropriate number of parts and taking one of the parts
 * Use tools and visual models to solve real-world fraction-of problems with unit fractions and whole numbers
 * Use division to simplify fractions
 * Convert from an improper fraction to a mixed number
 * Convert from a mixed number to an improper fraction

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 * Recognize that in multi-digit whole numbers, a digit in one place represents 10 times what it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left
 * Recognize that place-value patterns with whole numbers extend to decimals
 * Use grids or place-value charts to compare and order decimals through thousandths when the decimals have the same number of digits after the decimal point
 * Record comparisons using >, =, and < symbols
 * Use grids, number lines, or a rounding shortcut to round decimals to the nearest tenth or hundredth in cases when rounding only affects one digit
 * Use grids to add and subtract decimals
 * Use algorithms to add and subtract decimals through tenths with regrouping and through hundredths without regrouping
 * Understand that an ordered pair of numbers identifies an exact location on a coordinate grid
 * Use coordinates to graph and to name graphed points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane
 * Understand that information from some real-world and mathematical problems can be represented as ordered pairs and graphed on a coordinate grid
 * Plot points to represent given information

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Everyday Math Unit 5--Operations with Fractions Skills learned in this unit:


 * Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using U.S. traditional multiplication
 * Recognize that a common denominator makes it easier to add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers
 * Use a strategy to identify a common denominator
 * Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers when one of the following is required, but not both: finding a common denominator, or renaming the sum or starting number to have a smaller or larger fraction part
 * Use models to solve number stories involving addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers that require one, but not both, of the following: finding a common denominator, or renaming the sum or starting number
 * Use benchmark fractions and number sense to make reasonable estimates for fraction and mixed number sums and differences
 * Find a fraction of a whole number, when the answer is a whole number, by partitioning the whole number into equal parts and taking the appropriate number of parts or by multiplying the whole number by the numerator of the fraction and dividing by the denominator
 * Use paper-folding and other visual representations to visualize partitioning a fraction into equal parts and finding the value of one or more parts
 * Connect fraction-of problems to fraction multiplication
 * Find the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths by counting the number of unit fraction tiles that cover the rectangle and relating the count to how many tiles cover a unit square
 * Use area models to represent and find fraction parts
 * Predict that a product of a whole number and a fraction less than 1 will be less than the whole number and informally explain why this is so
 * Understand that multiplying a fraction by another fraction equal to 1 creates an equivalent fraction
 * Use tools and models to solve real-world problems involving multiplication of fractions by whole numbers or fractions by fractions
 * Use models to solve problems involving division of a unit fraction by a whole number or division of a whole number by a unit fraction when the problems are in context
 * Understanding that a prime number has two factors: itself and 1
 * Understanding that a composite number has more than two factors

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Everyday Math Unit 6--Investigations in Measurement Skills learned in this unit:


 * 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
 * Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10
 * Multiply whole numbers by powers of 10 and explain the number of zeros in the product
 * Multiply or divide a decimal by a power of 10 when no more than one place holder zero is necessary to write the product or quotient
 * Read and write decimals to thousandths using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form
 * Compare two decimals to thousandths based on the meanings of the digits in each place, using <, =, or > to record comparisons
 * Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculations by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models
 * Add and subtract decimals to hundredths using models or strategies
 * Estimate and find products of decimals when both factors are greater than 1
 * Estimate and find quotients of decimals when the dividend is greater than 1 and the divisor is a whole number
 * Place fractional data on a line plot when the number line and scale are provided
 * Use information in the line plots to solve single-step problems
 * Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement, including that a unit cube can be used to measure volume and that volume of a figure in cubic units is equal to the number of unit cubes that would fit inside the figure
 * Relate the multiplication involved in volume formulas to the process of packing with unit cubes
 * Apply volume formulas to solve real-world and mathematical problems
 * Use volume formulas and addition to find volumes of figures composed of rectangular prisms

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Everyday Math Unit 7--Multiplication of Mixed Numbers and Geometry Skills learned in this unit:


 * Generate a pattern using a given rule
 * Form ordered pairs from corresponding terms in a table
 * Graph ordered pairs on a coordinate plane
 * Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators
 * Multiply fractions by whole numbers and by fractions
 * Use an area model, or rewrite factors as fractions and use an algorithm, to multiply a mixed number by a whole number or by a fraction
 * Find the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths by tilting it with unit squares of the appropriate unit fraction side lengths or by multiplying the side lengthsRepresent fraction products as fractional areas
 * Understand that both methods should produce the same area measurement
 * Divide unit fractions by whole numbers ad whole numbers by unit fractions
 * Create line plots using fractional data
 * Use data on line plots to solve single-step and multistep problems involving addition and subtraction
 * Understand that attributes can be used to define categories and subcategories of shapes
 * Recognize when one category is a subcategory of another
 * Understand the basic structure of a hierarchy
 * Classify two-dimensional figures in a correct category according to a hierarchy, although not necessarily the most specific category
 * Classify two-dimensional figures in a correct category according to a hierarchy, although not necessarily the most specific category

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Everyday Math Unit 8--Applications of Measurement, Computation

Skills learned in this unit:


 * Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place
 * Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using manipulatives, drawings, or place value strategies
 * Explain their computation methods
 * Multiply a fraction or a whole number by a fraction
 * Compare the size of a product to one factor, based on the size of the other factor
 * Explain the effects of multiplying by fractions greater than or less than 1
 * Explain the effects of multiplying by fractions equal to 1
 * Solve real-world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers
 * Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system, and use conversions in solving multi-step, real-world problems
 * Understand and use a Cartesian coordinate grid in two dimensions
 * Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation

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