Our Fifth Grade Intensive Preparation (5IP) class is a 6-lesson summer course designed to fully prepare students for our fifth grade curriculum. Whereas most summer math programs are remedial in nature, ours is not. Students entering our 5IP class should already possess a basic understanding of fourth grade math and be ready to move to a higher level of proficiency.

Each 5IP lesson reviews approximately 6 lessons of fourth grade (4A and 4B) material. The class not only gives students an opportunity to review and reinforce what they learned in fourth grade math, it encourages them to build upon that knowledge by applying it to solve more challenging multi-step word and non-routine problems, thereby improving and expanding their abilities.

Topics covered include:

• Lesson 1: Whole numbers to 100,000: Arithmetic operations. Rounding and estimation. Factors and multiples.
• Lesson 2: Tables and line graphs. Fractions: Addition and subtraction of related fractions and mixed numbers; Improper fractions.
• Lesson 3: Angles. Perpendicular and parallel lines. Squares and rectangles.
• Lesson 4: Decimals: Understanding tenths, hundredths and thousandths; Comparing decimals; Rounding off decimals, Fractions and decimals.
• Lesson 5: Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals.
• Lesson 6: Time. Area and Perimeter.