November Morning Work 5th Grade Spiral Review

Inside the case file

This November morning work for 5th grade is a Thanksgiving math spiral review set out as twenty CSI Mini Mystery Detective math worksheets, one for each school day of the month. Your class will get daily practice with fractions, decimals, long division, multi-digit multiplication, volume, the coordinate plane and the order of operations. It's 5th grade math review you can hand out as students walk in, use as a bell ringer, or send home as homework. It's no prep, and every day has an answer key.

Each morning brings a different fall case and a different kind of page, so students meet a fresh skill every day of November. Most of the pages are pictures to work from: number lines, fraction bars, unit cube stacks, a place value chart, a coordinate grid and a recipe card. Students cross off a suspect for every answer they get, which means they're checking their own work as they go.

What's Inside

• 20 one-page cases, one for each school day in November. There are 20 problems on each page.
• An answer key for every day
• A teacher page listing the skills for each week
• Instructions, a contents page, a 20-day case log for students and a certificate for the end of the month
• 50 pages, all made to print in black and white

The Cases

1. The Hayride Holdup - decimals on number lines
2. The Apple Orchard Split - long division with 2-digit divisors
3. The Pie Plate Puzzle - adding fractions with fraction bars
4. The Market Mix-Up - decimal money at a farmers market
5. The Hay Bale Heist - volume with unit cubes
6. The Band Ticket Swindle - 3-digit by 2-digit multiplication
7. The Golden Leaf Code - place value to thousandths
8. The Seed Snatcher - a fraction line plot
9. The Turkey Trot Trail - points on a coordinate grid
10. The Rolling Pin Riddle - order of operations with brackets
11. The Bake Sale Bandit - fractions of a number with tape diagrams
12. The Cocoa Cart Crook - adding, subtracting and rounding decimals
13. The Leftover Lockup - volume of rectangular prisms
14. The Garden Plot Swap - multiplying fractions with area models
15. The Food Drive Fraud - multiplication and division word problems
16. The Dairy Barn Dilemma - gallons, quarts, pints and cups
17. The Touchdown Trail - two pattern rules on a graph
18. The Leftover Share-Out - dividing with unit fractions
19. The Tablecloth Tangle - area and perimeter with fraction sides
20. The Stolen Recipe Card - multiplying fractions in a recipe

When to Use This Resource

Start on the first school day of November and give out one case each morning. The days don't depend on each other, so you can also pick the one that matches what you taught the day before or skip a day without losing anything. Days 1 to 10 mix decimals, division and fractions, and Days 11 to 20 lean toward multiplying and dividing fractions, measurement and graphing. You could also use a single case for a small group, leave a few with your sub plans for the days before Thanksgiving, or keep them for test prep later in the year. A 6th grade class can use the pack as a review, and it works for homeschool too.

Grade Levels

Written for 5th grade, with every day matched to a 5th grade standard. Strong 4th graders can work through the decimal and measurement days, and 6th grade teachers can use it to review fractions and decimals.

Why Teachers Love Mystery Detectives

Every Mystery Detective pack works the same way. Once your class has solved one case, they know what to do with the next one, in this pack or any other. Each case also stands on its own, which means you can choose the one that fits what you're teaching that day. Naming the villain gives every page a clear end point, and the answer key lets you check a page quickly.

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