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5th grade

5th grade is the alternative spelling of fifth grade.

Meaning of fifth grade

Noun

fifth grade (plural fifth grades)

  1. (US) The period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.
    • 4) The Psychology Research Institute of the China Academy of Sciences carried out an experiment in teaching arithmetic in coordination with algebra in two classes of the fifth grade in the No. 2 experimental elementary school in Peking with good results. At a unified examination in arithmetic held...1976 [1960], Ting-yi Lu, “Our Schooling System Must Be Reformed”, in Shi Ming Hu, Eli Seifman, editors, Toward a New World Outlook: A Documentary History of Education in the People's Republic of...
    Synonyms:
    grade five, grade 5

Words formed from 5th grade

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What is 5th grade the alternative spelling of?
5th grade is the alternative spelling of fifth grade.

Words near 5th grade in the dictionary

  1. 5th Amendment
  2. 5th Cir.
  3. 5th column
  4. 5th columns
  5. 5th day fits
  6. 5th grade
  7. 5th grader
  8. 5th graders
  9. 5th wheel
  10. 5th wheels
  11. 5th World

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