Grade 5 Common Core Math: Data and Graphs

Grade 5 Common Core Math: Data and Graphs gives students a four-week run through data and probability. Students learn the difference between a census and a sample, and choose samples with simple random, stratified random and systematic random sampling. They turn frequencies into relative-frequency tables with fractions, decimals and percents, build stacked-bar graphs so groups of different sizes can be compared fairly, catch misleading graphs that don’t start at zero, and find the mean, median and mode of decimal data. In probability they write probabilities as fractions on a 0-to-1 probability line and compare theoretical and experimental results.

Two pages use real weather data from NOAA’s Regional Climate Centers (ACIS), exactly as published: ten September 2026 daily highs in Boston and Phoenix give decimal data for the mean, median and mode, and ten days of rain records for Seattle, Phoenix, Des Moines and Miami become a stacked-bar graph that challenges the idea that Seattle is always the rainiest city. A two-page class investigation takes students from a sampling plan to an infographic they present.

Inside: teacher notes with a four-week teaching order, timing, materials, differentiation, the common misconceptions and a map from each Common Core standard to the pages; five teaching pages with worked examples; eleven practice pages; three activities; an end-of-strand assessment; and an answer key with every answer worked out and checked a second way. Most of this strand is taught in Grades 6 and 7 in the Common Core, so the teacher notes say which pages fit which grade: use it as Grade 5 enrichment, a Grade 6 or 7 review, or for a mixed-grade class. Everything is in black and white and nothing depends on color. The free sample is the teacher notes and the relative-frequency practice page.