Webinars SET A - Grade 5-6 - Sunday@4:30-5:30pm EST - 10 MEETINGS-Recording 1

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Dr. Sarah Sagee introduces the Math Kangaroo Level 5–6 webinar series, explaining that students can participate through polls and chat while keeping cameras and microphones off. Handouts and session recordings are available through students’ Math Kangaroo accounts.<br /><br />The webinar focuses on a four-step problem-solving method: understand what the problem asks, plan a solution, carry it out while writing down the steps, and review the answer for accuracy and sense. Students are encouraged to mark important information, check vocabulary, and make sure they answer the question actually asked.<br /><br />The instructor explains that the Level 5–6 contest has 30 multiple-choice questions—10 each worth 3, 4, and 5 points—and lasts 75 minutes. Practicing easier questions quickly can leave more time for challenging ones.<br /><br />Sample problems demonstrate a range of topics, including counting, fractions and ratios, least common multiples and common factors, spatial reasoning, and geometry. Students work through examples involving ducks laying eggs, fruit eaten on the way home, travel distances, divisibility, and completing and counting painted faces on a prism. The instructor models different solution strategies and emphasizes that written work makes it easier to check and correct mistakes.<br /><br />Students are encouraged to use recordings, past contest materials, video solutions, and the website’s AI tool for practice. The webinar closes by emphasizing that being challenged is part of learning and that students can solve problems using the approaches that work best for them.

Keywords

Math Kangaroo

Level 5-6

problem-solving method

multiple-choice questions

webinar series

counting and fractions

geometry

divisibility

practice materials

AI tool