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Grade 5 Math (North Carolina SCOS)

Your Teacher Information Pack for Grade 5 Math (North Carolina SCOS): the standards with their official codes, in our own short summaries, plus tests and official links.

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State
North Carolina
Grade
Grade 5
Source
North Carolina K-12 Mathematics Standard Course of Study
Last checked
2026-10-20

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The standards (our summaries)

Official North Carolina codes with our own short summaries (not the official wording). Each code links to the official document.

Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT)

  • Understand the place value system
  • NC.5.NBT.1 Explain place value patterns from millions to thousandths, including multiplying and dividing by powers of ten.
  • NC.5.NBT.3 Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths as numerals, number names, and expanded form.
  • Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers
  • NC.5.NBT.5 Multiply up to three-digit by two-digit whole numbers fluently using the standard algorithm.
  • NC.5.NBT.6 Divide up to four-digit dividends by two-digit divisors, with remainders, using models and strategies.
  • Perform operations with decimals
  • NC.5.NBT.7 Compute with multi-digit whole numbers and decimals to solve real-world problems, estimating to check.

Number and Operations – Fractions (NF)

  • Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions
  • NC.5.NF.1 Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators, using benchmarks to estimate.
  • NC.5.NF.3 Use fractions to model and solve division of whole numbers, including fraction answers.
  • Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division
  • NC.5.NF.4 Multiply fractions and mixed numbers by fractions using area and length models.
  • NC.5.NF.7 Solve one-step problems dividing unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.

Measurement and Data (MD)

  • Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system
  • NC.5.MD.1 Use multiplicative reasoning and conversion charts to solve one-step unit conversion problems.
  • Represent and interpret data
  • NC.5.MD.2 Collect, represent, and interpret data that change over time using line graphs.
  • Understand concepts of volume
  • NC.5.MD.4 Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and measure it by counting unit cubes.
  • NC.5.MD.5 Relate volume to multiplication and addition for rectangular prisms and figures made of two prisms.

Geometry (G)

  • Graph points on the coordinate plane
  • NC.5.G.1 Graph points in the first quadrant and interpret coordinates to solve problems.
  • Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties
  • NC.5.G.3 Classify quadrilaterals in a hierarchy based on their properties.

Tests and key dates

State tests for this grade: STAAR Grade 5 Mathematics · FAST Mathematics (Florida, grades 3–8).

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Standards codes from the North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCDPI). Summaries are Classfern's own words, not the official text – see NCDPI for the official wording.

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