Welcome back 5^th graders!  This is going to be an exciting year of learning and exploration! My name is Mrs. Hafker and Iam looking forward to our journey together this year.  We will be revisiting skills that you have been exposed to.   These are some of the categories we will be working with- place values and number sense, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and mixed numbers, number sequences, variable expressions, data and graphs, time, measurement, decimals and geometry.  These are just a few topics we will be covering.  Remember math is made up of building blocks.  Everything you have learned up till now WILL help you with newly learned skills.  I am confident that there is a mathematician in all of you. Children learn that they are good in math when they can show it, draw it, explain it, or teach their friends.  Math is about being open to the possibilities of finding new ways to solve a problem and find the answer.