Are you looking for fun ways to incorporate real-world math using decimal operations into your classroom? This decorating the tree activity is the perfect addition to your lesson plans for that last week of school before winter break.Review decimal operations as students calculate what it will cost for a family to buy a tree and all of its decorations. Additionally, your students will also get a challenge as they apply coupons to reduce the cost, and lastly, calculate the ... Read More about A Christmas Decimal Operations Freebie
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Top 9 Fifth Grade Math Resources for the Third 9 Weeks
The third 9 weeks of school are almost all about FRACTIONS (and maybe a little bit of Geometry). Fractions are often a challenge for students, but I'm here to help you out. If you're looking for streamlined resources to make lesson planning easier, I'm sharing my top 9 Fifth Grade Math Resources for the third 9 weeks of the school year.If you haven't already grabbed a copy of my FREE 5th Grade Math Curriculum Map (it's even editable!), make sure that you do. It ... Read More about Top 9 Fifth Grade Math Resources for the Third 9 Weeks
Multiply & Divide Decimals by Powers of 10
Are you struggling with showing your students how to multiply and divide decimals by powers of 10? Do they try to use the standard algorithm to solve these even though they don't really need to?This skill is much easier to teach if you can show them with a more visual, hands-on approach.I've used two strategies to teach this skill:Move the digits in a place value chartMove the decimal pointI have found that moving the digits in a place value chart does the best job of showing how ... Read More about Multiply & Divide Decimals by Powers of 10
2 Strategies for Dividing Decimals
Are you dreading teaching your students the different strategies for dividing decimals? Not to mention the fact that there are so many types of decimal division problems!Well, I'm breaking it down for you in easy-to-teach mini-lessons for each type of division problem.Types of Dividing Decimals ProblemsDividing decimals... by whole numbersdividing whole numbers by decimalsby decimalswith the same number of decimal digits in both the dividend and divisorwith a different ... Read More about 2 Strategies for Dividing Decimals
