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 final cost with the discounts and sales tax.
This digital and printable freebie provides 3 pages where students practice decimal operations:
- calculating costs
- multiplying decimals by whole numbers
- adding decimals
- dazzling discounts
- multiplying decimals by decimals
- subtracting decimals
- totals and taxes
- multiplying decimals by decimals
- adding decimals
Digital Version
The digital version of this resource is a Google Slides file and can be assigned to students through Google Classroom. Detailed directions for assigning the file are included. This activity is perfect for face-to-face learning, virtual, or a combination!
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Thanks for sharing this on TpT. I can't wait to share it with the other teachers on my fifth grade team.
Thank you so much for the sweet comment, Stacy! Let me know how it works out for you!
I got a kick out of your recent comments on the forum. It's called GOOGLE!
Heheheh 🙂 Seriously!