Decimal Lesson Plans

1. A Model Project - This activity is a concrete way to introduce students to equivalent forms of fractions and decimals. The student constructs models to represent a fraction or a decimal.
2. Adding Decimals - Students will understand and be able to apply the steps of how to correctly add numbers that contain decimals.
3. Addition and Subtracting Small Decimals- There are five worksheets which children can use to practice adding and subtracting small numbers. They all have similar questions are straightforward to work through.
4. Bargain Town, USA - Designed to follow your instructions about converting number forms, this lesson is a real-world application of the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.
5. Base It - To expose students to number systems other than the decimal system and explain why we need to know these systems (binary: electronics and computers; octal and hexadecimal: flight test, computers).

1. Better than Average - Students use baseball cards to understand averages, decimals to thousandths, and the real-world use of math.
2. Cuisenaire Chefs - Students become Cuisenaire Chefs as they mix and toss Cuisenaire rods to recreate recipes. This hands-on activity gives students a chance to identify the value of fractions at an introductory level.
3. Decimals Are Brutal!
4. Decimals Make Cents - Look out real world, here we come! Due to new jobs, pay increases, taxes, money in the bank, and opportunities to spend, spend, spend, students learn there is no way to avoid working with decimals in making life "centsable"!
5. Does the Decimal Point Really Make a Difference? - What's the problem with cheeseburgers advertised for .99 cents each or colas for .89 cents each? Students study the decimal dilemma and discover major math mistakes in the real world.
6. Doing Dewey - Doing Dewey reinforces the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Students will apply their basic understanding of Dewey decimal classification to the process of book organization.
7. Focus on Sequencing Skills - Much time is spent working on beginning, middle, and end of a story in the early grades because the logical order of events or ideas is not always equally evident to every child. Sequencing must be practiced often and in many contexts before it becomes automatic for children. The following activities suggest teaching sequencing in several subject context.
8. Fraction and Decimal Garden - Students write fractions and decimals using unifix cube models and grid paper. They draw a garden using grid paper and label each section with the correct fraction and decimal to the tenths.
9. Fraction and Decimal Ordering - Students learn to order numbers in fraction and decimal form, in a critical thinking and kinesthetic fashion.
10. Fractions, Decimals, and Percents - How do they relate and how do they differ?
11. Fractions, Equivalent Fractions and Decimals- The student, after a demonstration and explanation on number sense for fraction and decimals, will be able to relate fractions to decimals and find and compare equivalent fractions.
12. How we use decimals everyday and don't even realize it.
13. Human Decimal Activity - Students will use models and pictures to demonstrate the value of decimal numerals with tenths and hundredths.
14. Jeopardy Changes It! - The students will be able to express percents as fractions and decimals, fractions as decimals and percents and decimals as percents and fractions. This will show that students understand the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.
15. Making Cents of Fractions and Decimals - Students learn decimals and fractions using groups of 100 pennies. By classifying the pennies in different ways, there are an unlimited number of ways to learn fractions, decimals, and place value in money.
16. Matching Decimals and Fractions- These two activities can be carried out as a whole class with the tables (shown below) drawn on the board (and with individual children coming to the front to complete the activity) or individually with children completing the worksheets which can be found by following the links below.
17. Number Chameleon - This lesson teaches students to express a quantity in a variety of ways; to understand whether relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents are equal; and to convert a number expressed in one form to another.
18. Perfect Places! - This lesson will help students understand the role of the decimal point and the relationship between tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.
19. Place Value - This lesson uses children's literature, place value puzzles, and games to teach place value in a fun and interesting way.
20. Plot That Decimal - Students work in groups to plot a set of number cards containing whole numbers and decimals on a number line.
21. Roll a Decimal - By the roll of a die, students place digits in the place value chart to create a number having the greatest or least value possible.
22. The Place Value Game - In this activity, students will play a game that reinforces their place value skills.
23. When Do You Use: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents?