# Data-Driven 5th Grade Math Instruction & Pacing Guide
> Learn how to use CAASPP, i-Ready, and SchoolCity data to align 5th-grade math instruction, focusing on fractions, decimals, and geometry.

Tags: math-education, data-driven-instruction, 5th-grade, pacing-guide, caaspp, elementary-math, instructional-strategies
## Why We Are Here
- Goal: Align math data, ELL data, accommodations, and progress monitoring within the 5th grade.
- Context: Final year of Go Math curriculum; piloting Savvas enVision+ and i-Ready.
- Key: Grade-level alignment ensures equity during curriculum transitions.

## Data Systems & Structures
- Framework: Pacing Guide built around priority standards to support conceptual understanding.
- Primary Data Sources: SchoolCity Benchmarks, CAASPP practice assessments (FIABs/IABs), and i-Ready Math Diagnostics.
- Strategy: Triangulating multiple data sources to identify patterns rather than isolated scores.

## Instructional Implementation
- Data Workflow: Look for trends -> Identify shared needs -> Agree on 1-2 shifts -> Weekly monitoring -> Adjust instruction.
- Example: Embedded sentence frames to support weak explanation skills instead of re-teaching whole units.

## Strategy: Fractions before Decimals
- Pacing Decision: Fractions are taught before decimals to build foundations in equivalence, scaling, and number sense.
- Results: Significant growth in BASE Ten operations and clearer decimal placement reasoning.
- Impact: Improved written explanations by anchoring decimal concepts in fraction models.

## Geometry & CAASPP Alignment
- Finding: CAASPP data identified lower performance in volume and geometry formulas.
- Response: Increased hands-on modeling with unit cubes and focused on multiplication/addition connections in Chapter 11.

## Ongoing Instructional Shifts
- Strengths: Place value, fraction understanding, and engagement with real-world problems.
- Areas for Support: Decimal multiplication/division and multi-step word problems.
- Commitments: Daily real-world math, visual models before computation, and ELL supports (sentence frames, partner talk).
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