The 5th Grade Explorer's Handbook
Like Duolingo, but for The 5th Grade Explorer's Handbook. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in The 5th Grade Explorer's Handbook
- Moving a digit one place to the left multiplies its value by 10
- The hundreds place is exactly one position to the left of the tens place
- Digits further to the left represent larger quantities
- The sequence of place values increases by powers of ten as you move left
- The furthest-left digit holds the highest place value
- How moving a digit one place to the left changes its value
- A single unit in a higher place value is worth more than any combination of digits in lower place values
- The hierarchy of place value power from right to left
- Physical reactions represent internal emotions
- Context clues for physical reactions
- Preparations and body language signal next moves
- Predicting requires cause and effect
- Inferences are formed by the formula: Text Clues + Schema (Background Knowledge)
- The 'hidden meaning' is not literally on the page but is constructed by the reader
- How to identify a character's internal feelings through their physical actions and dialogue
- Mapping specific textual clues to the likely future actions of a character
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The 5th Grade Explorer's Handbook the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Which place value is located immediately to the left of the tens place?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where The 5th Grade Explorer's Handbook takes you
Master the coolest skills of 5th grade by solving real-world mysteries. From decoding secret messages in stories to mapping out new worlds and calculating your way through a mission, you'll see how every subject connects.
- 1
Solve Problems Like a Pro
- Cracking the Code of Big Numbers
- Finding the Hidden Meaning in Stories
- Measuring Your World with Decimals
- How to Spot a Fact vs. an Opinion
- 2
Investigate the World Around You
- Why the Stars Move at Night
- Navigating with Maps and Coordinates
- The Secret Life of Ecosystems
- How Land Changes Over Time
- Mixing Chemicals Without the Mess
- Reading Between the Lines of History
- 3
Connect the Past to the Future
- How Early Explorers Changed the Map
- The Power of Fractions in Everyday Life
- Why People Move to New Places
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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