The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) was developed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), in response to Texas House Bill 72 (1984), which mandated a new basic skills assessment program for mathematics, reading, and writing at grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11. This document is one in a series of Instructional Strategies Guides designed to familiarize Texas educators with the types of strategies employed in assessing learner mastery of TEAMS objectives and to provide suggested instructional activities that can be used to promote mastery of those objectives. This guide focuses on the TEAMS mathematics objectives for grade 5. It provides a detailed description of the test items used to measure each mathematics objective. The 11 objectives are subsumed under five skill areas: (1) number concept (place value, equivalent fractions); (2) computation (addition and subtraction of decimals, multiplication of whole numbers, division of whole numbers); (3) problem solving (word problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers, multiplication and division of whole numbers, addition and subtraction of decimals); (4) measurement (metric and customary units, graphs); and (5) geometry (perimeter and area of polygons). The following information is provided for each objective: (1) a description of objective; (2) a sample item; (3) test questions; (4) answer choices; (5) answer analyses sample item; (6) instructional emphases; and (7) possible instructional activities. (JAZ)