Mathematics 5 curriculum guide 2015 I table of contents acknowledgements

Distance from Home to School
Less than 1 km
About 1 km
More than 1 km
Ask students to discuss, in pairs, how many times they would have to 
walk around the perimeter of the school yard to walk one kilometre.
Ask them to identify and write about the strategy they used to find their 
answer.
Students should also relate the metre to the kilometre. They should come 
to realize that if 1 000 metre sticks were lined up end-to-end, they would 
measure one kilometre.
Students may find it helpful to create a four-door foldable with the 
sections titled mm, cm, m and km. The inside flaps could contain 
referents or examples of items that might be measured using that unit. 
This could be completed as students work through the indicators for 
5SS2. 

 
 
 
 

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MATHEMATICS 5 CURRICULUM GUIDE 2015
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Resources/Notes
MEASUREMENT
General Outcome: Use Direct or Indirect Measurement to Solve Problems
Authorized Resource
Note
Math Focus 5
does not have 
material to support this indicator.
Teachers should use suggestions 
from this guide.
Suggested Resource
• Resource Link: https://www.
k12pl.nl.ca/curr/k-6/math/
grade-5/links/unit3
-Google maps
Performance
• 
Ask students to work in pairs to decide about how many fifth graders 
lying head to toe it would take to stretch 1 kilometre. 
(5SS2.4)
• 
Ask the students to use a map to find distances and make a chart 
of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and their distance 
from the student’s home town.
(5SS2.4)
• 
Ask students which of these they would measure using kilometres:
(i) the distance from your school to the ocean
(ii) the distance from your school to a corner store
(iii) the distance from your school building to the playground
(iv) the distance from your desk to the whiteboard
(v) the distance from your nose to your toes
(vi) the distance from your school to a hospital
For the examples selected, students could estimate the distance.
(5SS2.4, 5SS2.5, 5SS2.6, 5SS2.7)
• 
Ask students to match one of these distances to each of the examples 
given: 10 cm, 10 km, 10 m, 10 mm
(i) the length of a transport truck
(ii) the distance you drove in a car
(iii) the distance a snail travels in five seconds
(iv) the length of your hand
(5SS2.5, 5SS2.7)
Journal
• 
Ask students to respond to this prompt:
Suppose there are two stores where you can go to buy treats. One
is 500 m away and the other is five km away. To which one would
you choose to walk? Explain your choice.
(5SS2.7)