Lesson Plan
Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
This lesson combines three essential skills in one entertaining game! Students will need to add, subtract, and understand place value with decimals.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to use their knowledge of place value to add and subtract decimals.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Explain to students that they will put their knowledge of adding and subtracting decimals to use with this game.
- Ask students what the most important rule is when adding or subtracting decimals. (Answer: lining up the decimal point.)
- Write the problem 2.21 + 0.54 on the board as a review. Have students help you solve the problem step by step.
Beginning
- Allow students to use their home language (L1) or new language (L2) in their discussions.
- Provide visuals, such as a place vaue chart with decimal places, and visuals for new vocabulary (e.g., "decimals," "hundreths," "tenths," "fractions," etc.) to help them understand the decimal review.
Intermediate
- Write the academic language they can use throughout the lesson on the board as you introduce the language in the lesson (i.e., write sentence frames or new vocabulary).