Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Grade / Instructional Focus: 5th Grade Mathematics
Groups: _X_ Regular; _X_ IEP; _X_ ELL; _X_ Econ. Disadvantaged; _X_ Race; X_ Gender
Goal: All fifth grade students will demonstrate mathematics proficiency at grade level or
above grade level on the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test.
Achievement Objective / Benchmark (median scores or assessment nomenclature):
Standard Objective PASS Current %
or
assessment
nomenclature
Number
Operations &
Computation
8/18%
Estimation
4 test items
@ least half
will score __
Years as
Issue
as %
or assessment
nomenclature
3.1 25% 50% 06-07
Geometry &
Measurement
12/27%
Convert
Measurements
4 test items
4.5 50% 75% 07-08,
08-09
Interventions / Strategies:
The following research-based strategies have been chosen specifically to meet the needs of
students of each gender and race as well as those who are Special Needs or economically
challenged. Female students benefit from verbal interaction, descriptive narration, and
expressing emotional connections/experiences to the information. Male students benefit from
simple, analytic explanation, kinesthetic movement, and visual images to aid in retention of
information. According to Ruby Payne, economically challenged students, need to know the
“why” and “how” of a topic, before they can learn it. With those needs in mind, the following
interventions/strategies have been chosen:
3.1
Fifth grade teachers will have students solve daily estimation activities involving decimals.
Students will use advertisements from various grocery stores along with different shopping
list scenarios. They will estimate the closest amount of change they will receive in return for
their payments. Students will record their answers in their estimation journals.
4.5
Fifth grade teachers will use Marzano’s Cues, Questions, and Advanced Organizers Strategy
to assist students in converting from one unit of metric measure to another within the metric
system. Discuss that an easy way to remember the sequence of metric units from largest to
smallest is using this mnemonic device:
King Henry Died Unexpectedly Drinking Chocolate Milk. (kilo, hecto, deca, base unit, deci,
centi, milli)
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