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Curriculum Snapshot:
Topic:Mayan Math
Themes: Adventures in Mayan Math
Curriculum Areas:Reading
Math
History/Social Science
Grade Level(s):4, 5
California Content Standards
English and Language Arts
Grade Five
Writing
ELA.5.1.0. Writing Strategies
Research and Technology
ELA.5.1.3. Use organizational features of printed text (e.g., citations, end notes, bibliographic references) to locate relevant information.
ELA.5.1.4. Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing organizational features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down menus, word searches, the thesaurus, spell checks).
ELA.5.1.5. Use a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings.
Evaluation and Revision
ELA.5.1.6. Edit and revise manuscripts to improve the meaning and focus of writing by adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences.
Mathematics
Grade Five
Number Sense
MA.5.2.0. Students perform calculations and solve problems involving addition, subtraction, and simple multiplication and division of fractions and decimals:
MA.5.2.3. Solve simple problems, including ones arising in concrete situations, involving the addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers (like and unlike denominators of 20 or less), and express answers in the simplest form.
History and Social Science
Grade Five. United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation
HSS.5.1. Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River.
HSS.5.1.2. Describe their varied customs and folklore traditions.


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