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What do students need to know?

Zooming in on the number line
Arranging numbers in order
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying and dividing by 10
Multiplying decimals

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Grade 4
Student Letter

Numbers between numbers

Multiply a small number by itself. Predict.
Square a small number (15). Tell me the
result. Ill guess your starting number.
Lets reverse it.
I got 36
I got 49
I got 43
Hmmm Between 6 and 7?

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What do students need to know?

Zooming in on the number line
Arranging numbers in order
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying and dividing by 10
Multiplying decimals

Alphabetical order to compare decimals

Teach and Practice

Which number is biggest?

Where is the units digit? Hmm Cant tell yet

What if the others have more hidden stuff?

OK. Which is the smallest?

Is that it?
What if there are hidden digits?

Sort the rest in order

What do we already know?

What do we know now?

And now?

And now?

3.05
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Reading Decimals: 98.6 F

Five reasons why we should not insist on
pronouncing 6.53 as six and 53 hundredths
n How do you write 6 53/100 as a decimal?
n How many units? Tenths? Hundredths?
n 53/100 sounds bigger than 6/10 but easy order is
one of the main points of decimals
n Its a nuisance to pronounce 3.14159
n Nobody, except in U.S. schools, does it.

What do students need to know?

Zooming in on the number line
Arranging numbers in order
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying and dividing by 10
Multiplying decimals

Grade 4 of Think Math!

Grade 4 of Think Math!

Grade 4 of Think Math!

So 3.6 and 3.17 are just kinds of 3

Whats 3 + 4?
Picture it on number line!
Whats 3.6 + 4?
Whats 3 + 4.1?
Whats 3.5 + 0.1?
Whats 3.5 + 3.5?
Whats 3.5 + 3.6? 3.5 + 3.5 + 0.1

4+3= 7
4.4 + 3 = 7.
7.7
4 + 3.7 = 4
0.4 + 0.7 = 1.
8.1
4.4 + 3.7 = 1
44 + 37 = 8
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Grade 4 of Think Math!

Grade 4 of Think Math!

Grade 4 of Think Math!

Grade 4 of Think Math!

What do students need to know?

Zooming in on the number line
Arranging numbers in order
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying and dividing by 10
Multiplying decimals

Decimals &
Place Value

Grade 5

Why multiply and divide by 10?

Practice reading numbers
Reviewing place value
Seeing the pattern on the right side of the
Seeing that and by 10 undo each other
And

What do students need to know?

Zooming in on the number line
Arranging numbers in order
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying and dividing by 10
Multiplying decimals

Why multiply and divide by 10?

Practice reading numbers
Reviewing place value
Seeing the pattern on the right side of the
Seeing that and by 10 undo each other
Seeing why 28 32 helps with 2.8 3.2
2.8 10 3.2 10, then divide by 100

TM! does decimals the way scientists,

engineers, builders, mathematicians, doctors, statisticians do.
In pronunciation
As an extension of place value
As an approximation
As an exact number

Grade 4 of Think Math!

Grade 4 of Think Math!

Grade 4 of Think Math!

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