Lesson Plan
Writing Decimal Subtraction Problems
Empower your students with the opportunity to design decimal subtraction problems with a given difference (answer). Use this lesson on its own or as support for the lesson Step By Step Decimal Subtraction.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to subtract decimals to the hundredths place.
Language
Students will be able to discuss and create decimal subtraction problems using peer interaction and sentence frames for support.
Introduction
(3 minutes)- Ask students to turn to a partner and discuss the term decimal. Listen in on student conversations and guide them to the discovery that a decimal is one way to show fractions or parts of a whole. On a piece of chart paper, take notes on their conversations and add a few examples of decimals.
- Ask students when/where they have seen decimals in the real world and jot down students' responses on the chart paper as well. Validate students' ideas and add on any necessary points.