Learn activities for fifth-grade math that you can do with your child to prepare them for school. Teach your children the fifth-grade math skills they need.

A crossword puzzle assigned as a homework lesson for fifth-graders studying a book about the 19th-century South asked them to use a racial slur — the N-word — as an answer.

And the project helped Berry’s students master some important 5th grade math concepts—such as adding and subtracting multidigit numbers with decimals.