This book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence.

Features include:

- A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 5

- Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scores--in class and on achievement tests

- A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work

- End-of-chapter tests to measure students' progress

- A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book

- More than 1,000 math problems with answers

Topics covered:

- Operations with multi-digit numbers and decimals

- Place values

- Order of operations

- Properties of addition and multiplication

- Operations with fractions and mixed numbers

- Customary and metric units of measure, including temperature

- Solving problems by graphing points on the coordinate plane

- Classifying polygons based on their properties

- Calculating area and volume

- Solving problems using data line plots

- Analyzing patterns and relationships

- Word problems