Grades 5–6MathUnit pack

Space Mission Math

Grades 5 and 6 plan a trip to the Moon with real, rounded distances: place value for huge numbers, a hallway-size solar system, light travel time, speed and unit rates, fuel ratios and percent, powers of 10, mission data, a landing map and a design-a-mission planner. Includes a check-up and a worked answer key.

12 printable pages · teacher notes and answer key · United States (Common Core)

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This pack is a mission-planning story in twelve printable pages. Children work out how far the Moon is, build a solar system to scale along a hallway, find how long light takes to cross space, compare ship speeds, track fuel with ratio tables and percent, and read big numbers with place value and powers of 10. They find the mean and median of mission data, read coordinates on a landing map, extend countdown number patterns and finish by designing a mission with the numbers they have built.

Every real distance and speed is rounded and marked “about”. Data for the ship, its fuel and the crew practice runs is invented for the story, and each page says so. Teacher notes give a plan, the materials list, ideas for children who need more support or a stretch, and the exact standards each page practices.

Inside: teacher notes, ten children’s pages, an 8-question check-up and a worked answer key. Print in black and white on any printer. The free sample is the teacher notes and the Hallway Solar System page.

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$Page: Teacher Notes$ Teacher Notes $Page: Hallway Solar System$ Hallway Solar System

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01Teacher NotesTeacher notes
02How Far Is Far? Big NumbersPractice
03Hallway Solar SystemActivity
04Speed and LightPractice
05Fuel CheckPractice
06Powers of 10Practice
07Crew Practice DataPractice
08Landing MapActivity
09Countdown PatternsPractice
10Design a MissionActivity
11Mission Check-UpAssessment
12Answer KeyAnswer key

Curriculum Common Core (US)

United States (Common Core)

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 · 5.NBT.A.1Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 · 5.NBT.A.2Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 · 5.NBT.A.3Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 · 5.NBT.B.7Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 · 5.G.A.1Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 · 5.G.A.2Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 · 6.EE.A.1Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 · 6.NS.B.3Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 · 6.RP.A.1Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 · 6.RP.A.2Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 · 6.RP.A.3.bSolve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 · 6.RP.A.3.cFind a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 · 6.SP.B.5Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, such as by: reporting the number of observations; describing the nature of the attribute under investigation, including how it was measured and its units of measurement; giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from the overall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered; relating the choice of measures of center and variability to the shape of the data distribution and the context in which the data were gathered.

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Teacher notes: how to use it, timing and differentiation
Answer key for every practice and assessment page
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