Grade 5 ILEARN Math Checkpoint 2 Practice

What Checkpoint 2 covers in grade 5, items to try, the mistakes students make most, and the practice that goes with it.

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What Checkpoint 2 covers

6 standards, 3 marked essential. Short names in our own words.

5.CA.3Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
5.CA.4Fraction addition and subtraction in real-world problemsEssential
5.CA.9Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths
5.CA.10Decimal and money problems in real-world settingsEssential
5.NS.1Compare and order fractions and decimals on a number lineEssential
5.NS.4Model percents as parts of 100

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5.CA.3Approaching

Which equation shows 23 + 14 rewritten with a common denominator?

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5.CA.10At Proficiency

A bag of rice has a mass of 1.25 kilograms.

What is the mass of 4 bags?

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5.CA.4Above Proficiency

A shipping box holds two packages weighing 378 pounds and 2112 pounds.

Without finding the exact total, which is the best estimate of the combined weight?

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Where students go wrong

The most common mistake on each standard, and what to do about it, from the teacher pages in the Checkpoint 2 intervention.

5.CA.3

Adding straight across

What it looks like: 23 + 34 comes back as 57 — numerators added, denominators added. The single most common fraction error in grade 5, and it produces an answer smaller than one of the addends, which is the quickest way to catch it.
What to do: Ask whether the answer can be smaller than 34 when you started with 34 and added something. The size check lands faster than the procedure.

5.CA.4

Choosing the operation from a keyword

What it looks like: "How much farther" or "how much is left" gets addition because the problem also contains the words "in all" earlier in the sentence. The arithmetic is usually correct; the operation is not.
What to do: Have them say the situation aloud without numbers — "she has some, she used some, what is left" — before choosing anything.

5.CA.9

Subtracting the smaller digit from the larger, column by column

What it looks like: 6.35 − 2.78 comes back as 4.43: in each column the student takes whichever digit is smaller from whichever is larger, so no regrouping ever happens. Every digit looks plausible on its own.
What to do: Estimate first — 6 minus 3 is about 3, so a 4 is wrong before any column is worked — then regroup one column at a time.

5.CA.10

Stopping after the first step

What it looks like: A two-step money problem answered with the subtotal. The multiplication is right, the change is never computed, and the answer is a number that genuinely appears in the problem — so it does not look wrong at a glance.
What to do: Have them underline the question sentence before computing anything, then check the final answer against that sentence rather than against their own work.

5.NS.1

Comparing decimals by how many digits they have

What it looks like: 0.48 judged smaller than 0.084 because it is shorter, or larger than 0.408 because "more digits means more". Either direction appears; what they have in common is that the digits are never lined up by place.
What to do: Give every number the same number of places with trailing zeros — 0.480, 0.408, 0.084 — and the comparison becomes a whole-number one.

5.NS.4

Reading the number of shaded parts as the percent

What it looks like: A bar cut into 20 parts with 15 shaded, reported as 15%. The count is right and the whole has been ignored — and the error disappears entirely on models cut into 100, which is why it survives so long.
What to do: Ask what the model would look like with 100 parts. A percent is always out of 100, whatever the model is cut into.

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Checkpoint 2 Intervention & Reteach

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The practice set and the intervention together.

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Independent practiceIndependent practice for the Indiana ILEARN Math assessment. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Indiana Department of Education. Standard names are short summaries in our own words; see IDOE for the official text.