Friday, November 30, 2012

Decimals and Fractions

We've been working hard to understand decimals.  We created a class chart with all of our different strategies for comparing and thinking about decimals.  The strategies include:



  • Writing a place value chart 
  • Reading decimals
    • "4.5 is four and five tenths or four and a half"
  • Building decimals using tools or drawing pictures
  • Comparing the decimals to benchmark numbers such as 0, 1/2, and 1
    • "I know that 0.3 is closer to 0, because it is less than 0.5 or 1/2"
  • Placing numbers on a number line and ordering them from least to greatest




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