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Welcome to 5th grade math. Today we set up our notebooks and reviewed our notebook grading rubric.

Welcome! This website is a resource for students in my math classes. – Mr. J

This is the answer key for the STAAR practice assessment.

Today we had some fun imagining what the Shapes Family Thanksgiving would be like. Which families are there, who are siblings, what do the have in common, how did they get their names, and who belongs to whom? Oh the drama!

This lesson looks in more detail at how triangles differ by side length and angles.

This class extends our classification knowledge of polygons to examine the different kinds of quadrilaterals.

This week we start Skill 13: how to classify two dimensional shapes based on their attributes (primarily angles and side lengths).

Our expression today uses Percy as our example. (See https://mobile.twitter.com/nasapersevere)

Today we looked carefully at what we need to know and show as we solve expressions.

We continue with examples of simplifying expressions. In particular, we are focusing on the difference between expressions and equations.