FAST Math Grade 5 study plan
FAST Math Grade 5 · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Number Sense and Operations with Whole Numbers, Fractions, and Decimals
Read and write multi-digit whole numbers through the millions in standard, expanded, and word form, and round them to any place value on 20 mixed practice items.
Fluently apply the standard algorithms for multi-digit addition, subtraction, and multiplication (up to 3-digit by 2-digit) on 25 timed items with at least 90% accuracy.
Solve whole-number division problems with 4-digit dividends and 2-digit divisors, interpreting remainders in context, on 10 word problems.
Build a personal error log that records the mistake type (place value, regrouping, fact recall, misread) for every item missed this week.
Your checkpoint
A completed 40-item whole-number computation and rounding quiz scored and corrected, with the error log showing at least 5 categorized mistakes and a corrected re-do of each.
Number Sense and Operations with Whole Numbers, Fractions, and Decimals & Fractions and Operations with Fractions
Convert between decimals, fractions, and percents for tenths and hundredths, and compare and order decimals to the thousandths place on 20 items.
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to the hundredths place, aligning place value and placing the decimal point correctly, on 25 items.
Generate equivalent fractions and simplify fractions to lowest terms on 20 items.
Identify common misconceptions in your own decimal work (for example, treating 0.4 as smaller than 0.15) and write a one-line rule to prevent each.
Your checkpoint
A two-column reference sheet of decimal and fraction rules you wrote yourself, plus a 30-item mixed decimal/fraction quiz scored at 85% or higher.
Fractions and Operations with Fractions
Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators, including regrouping when borrowing, on 20 items.
Multiply a fraction by a whole number and by another fraction, using area models to justify at least 5 answers.
Divide a unit fraction by a whole number and a whole number by a unit fraction, and explain the result with a story context for 5 problems.
Solve 8 multi-step fraction word problems by first writing the operation(s) needed, then computing.
Your checkpoint
A fully worked 25-item fraction operations test (all four operations) with model drawings attached for at least 6 items and a score of 80% or better.
Fractions and Operations with Fractions & Algebraic Thinking and Expressions
Translate between verbal descriptions and algebraic expressions using variables, identifying operation keywords on 15 items.
Evaluate expressions with variables and apply order of operations (parentheses, brackets, exponents) on 15 items.
Write simple equations from one-step word problems and solve for the unknown on 10 problems.
Connect fraction reasoning to expressions by writing and evaluating expressions such as one-half of a number.
Your checkpoint
A mid-plan checkpoint quiz of 30 items covering decimals, fraction operations, and expression writing, scored and analyzed with a list of the two weakest skills to target in weeks 5-6.
Milestones
Week 4: Score at least 75% on the 30-item cumulative checkpoint covering Domains 1, 2, and 3, and name the two specific skills that produced the most missed items.
Week 6: Score at least 80% on a 20-item geometry and measurement quiz and correctly classify at least 15 of 20 figures by their properties.
Week 8: Score at least 80% on a full-length timed practice test spanning all six domains, with no domain below 70%.