Lesson Plan
Decimal, Fractions: Number Line Riddles!
Who doesn’t love a good riddle?! Using this lesson plan, your students will solve a puzzle while learning to read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths using a number line.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Show your students the number line from the first page of the Number Line Riddle worksheet.
- Have your class think, pair, and share a three-letter word and its corresponding fraction or decimal on the number line (an example might be "car," where c is 3/4 , a is 1/4 and r is 4 2/4 or 4.5). Note how the number line is missing certain whole numbers; it’s tricky!
- Let your students share out their answers with the whole class and challenge them to list both fraction and decimal form of their corresponding letters.