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Skills: Collaborate and use the "language" of place value and decimals in strategic, purposeful note-taking partnerships in order to read and write decimals to the thousandths ...

Description: Need to review, informally assess or introduce place value and compare decimals with your 5th graders?  This engaging bundle of 3 scripted lessons (30-60 minutes each) is perfect for you 😁.   Your students will:

• Collaborate and use the "language" of place value and decimals in strategic, purposeful note-taking partnerships in order to read and write decimals to the thousandths place in word and expanded form and base-ten numerals
• Explain the "why" of place value by reading and writing decimals through the thousandths place correctly with partners in order to compare two decimals or fractions to the thousandths place
• Demonstrate their understanding by playing a game where they will create six-digit numbers through the thousandths place with partners
• Complete an exit slip to help determine your next instructional steps

CCSS: 5.NBT.3

Skills: Collaborate and use the "language" of place value and decimals in strategic, purposeful note-taking partnerships Review and practice distinguishing between parentheses, brackets, and braces Apply ...

Description: 5th grade math concepts can get complicated quickly when multiple symbols are involved.  In this interactive, scripted bundle of 3 lessons (30-60 minutes each) your students will:

• Collaborate and use the "language" of place value and decimals in strategic, purposeful note-taking partnerships
• Practice and review distinguishing between parentheses, brackets, and braces
• Apply previous knowledge about the order of operations (PEMDAS) to new situations
• Evaluate and solve numerical expressions with parentheses, brackets, and braces
• Design their own examples of  numerical expressions using these symbols
• Demonstrate their understanding of this skill by playing an interactive game
• Complete an exit slip to help determine your next instructional steps

CCSS: 5.OA.1

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of place value and attend to precision Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Practice taking ...

Description: Place value is one of the cornerstones for making sense of more complicated math skills.  In this interactive, scripted bundle of 3 lessons (30-60 minutes each) your 4th graders will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of place value and attend to precision
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • Practice taking strategic notes
• Identify numbers in expanded form through the hundred-thousands place, and use expanded form to explain place value through the hundred-thousands place
• Practice with partners, read and write whole numbers through the hundred-thousands place, and use expanded form and place value to explain the value of digits through the hundred-thousands place
• Demonstrate their understanding of place value by playing a game to solve for mystery numbers using clues
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.NBT.2a

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of place value and attend to precision Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Write strategic ...

Description: Help your 4th graders with the valuable life skill - rounding numbers!  In this interactive, engaging and fun scripted bundle of 3 lessons (30-60 minutes each) they will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of place value and attend to precision
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
• Write strategic notes for future use
• Practice the language of place value, review and practice using place value to round whole numbers to the nearest 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000 on a vertical number line
• Challenge themselves to solve different place value "problem" cards (each card has a varied difficulty level and point value) by moving around in pairs or groups)
• Demonstrate their understanding of place value by spinning a wheel to create and compare a 6-digit number  in order to determine each number's place value

CCSS: 4.NBT.3

Skills: Collaborate, practice key math terms and take notes Distinguish between additive comparison and multiplicative comparison Solve word problems including unknown variable by using drawings, tape ...

Description: What math skills do 4th graders need to practice often?  Solving word problems for sure!  In this scripted and engaging bundle of 3 lessons (30-60 minutes each) your students will:

• Collaborate, practice key math terms and take notes
• Distinguish between additive comparison and multiplicative comparison
• Solve word problems including unknown variable by using drawings, tape diagrams, equations, multiplication or division
• Demonstrate their understanding of the multiplicative comparison by creating word problems and using manipulatives to illustrate their solutions
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine next instructional steps

CCSS: 4.OA.2

Skills: Collaborate with peers, practice the "language" of math and take "math" notes Use expanded form to decompose a number Identify the value of the digits ...

Description: Practice addition & subtraction within 1000 in many different ways with this engaging, fully scripted bundle of 3 lessons (30-60 minutes each).  Your 3rd graders will:

• Collaborate with peers, practice the "language" of math and take "math" notes
• Use expanded form to decompose a number
• Identify the value of the digits in order to add using the partial sums method and subtract using the decomposing method
• Practice addition and subtraction within 1000 using open number lines
• Demonstrate their understanding of these skills by playing a game with open number lines to practice explaining value of digits and place values by adding and subtracting within 1000

CCSS: 3.NBT.2