fifth grade

plural fifth grades

1. USeducationThe period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.

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   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 among all elementary schools in Hsicheng ch’ü, Peking, the grades of the students in these two classes averaged better that 94.

   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 China, 1949-1976, New York: AMS Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 124

   Synonyms: grade five, grade 5