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Unit 02
Energizers (5 min)
Below you will find a new spin on some energizers you may have already used in your classroom. Feel free to continue to use the other energizers listed in Unit 01 by clicking here: http://bit.ly/2evd1Dc.
I love math: Four students make a decimal digit to the with two place values to either side of the decimal (the decimal could be the student in the ones or tenths place holding a fist to indicate the decimal. Groups link arms when they have built their number. When the teacher says "GO" all groups SILENTLY order themselves from least to greatest or greatest to least. Teacher can time class to see how quickly they can order themselves.
I was walking down the street: Use estimation to the tens, hundreds, thousands.
Example: I was walking down the street and I heard Stacey say the number estimated to 1,800, what could have been the number?
Don't forget to change the word estimate to other vocabulary such as: about, close, little more/little less, around, or approximately.
Opening (5-10 min)
Would you rather Math: http://www.wouldyourathermath.com/
Mystery Number with Place Value Pockets: Use the place value pockets giving clues about your number. With each clue, students monitor and adjust the number they have built to see if it matches the new clue given. (This can also be done with dry erase markers)
Example: (the number is 527, 816)
- My number has digits into the hundred thousands place
- If estimated to the nearest hundred, my number would have an 8 in the hundreds place.
- My number has the sides of a pentagon in the hundred thousands place.
- My has half the inches in a foot in the ones place.
- My number if estimated to the nearest hundred thousand, my number would estimate to 500, 000
- My number has 1/2 the sides of a quadrilateral in the ten thousands place.
- My number if estimated to the nearest tens place would be 20.
- My number has the first multiple of seven in the thousands place.
Optional Unit 02 Activities
What's for lunch?
Materials Needed: Paper, printed/online menu of local restaurant (a few links are listed below)
Explain to your students that they will each have $40 to purchase their lunches for the week (Monday-Friday). They get to choose whatever they’d like each day, but they can’t spend more than $40 for the entire week. Students must indicate how much they have left to spend after each daily order.
To record, have students take a piece of paper and fold into fourths.
Casa Garcias - http://bit.do/casagarcias
Spicy Bite - http://bit.do/spicybite
IHop - http://bit.do/ihopprices
Dave's Diner (Psuedo diner) - http://bit.do/davesdiner
Which Car?
Materials: free car magazine available at your local grocery store (usually near exit doors. Note some magazines only have a few pages that have the full price listed for this activity).
Have students create a table of the three cars that they are most interested in, car A, B, and C. (similar to formative assessment #4).
- To the nearest thousand, about how much more or less is the list price for Car A than the list price for Car C? Show your work.
- To the nearest hundred, about how much more/less is the list price for Car B than the list price for Car C? Show your work.
- To the nearest ten, about how much more is the list price for Car A than the list price for Car B? Show your work.
Task Cards with money and store ads
Task Cards - There are only 4 task cards in this bunch, but they are successive, so you have to do card #1 to be able to do card #2. Each pair of students started out with Task Card #1. When they finished Task #1, look over the work then give them Task #2, then Task #3, etc.
Scroll to the middle of the blog to download the three additional scenario cards for FREE.
http://www.teachingwithamountainview.com/2013/10/adding-and-subtracting-decimals.html
Find Weekly shopping ads here: http://weeklyshoppingad.com/?s=target
Literature Connection:
The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money
Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Mama and Papa are worried that Brother and Sister seem to think money grows on trees. To make money of their own, the cubs decide to start their very own businesses, from a lemonade stand to a pet-walking service. Includes over 50 bonus stickers!
A Chair for My Mother
Rock, Brock, And the Savings Shock
1. Guided Math
https://drive.google.com/open?id=15CrkRLTeTyThPkfQhCcUwEMXEdW3mmd09jGOZL3CUus
2. Technology
Don't forget about the Prodigy Math Tournament: https://www.smore.com/3nkhs
Also for word problems with number strips: http://www.mathplayground.com/tb_multiplication/index.html
3. Review/Preview:
- Building Bricks (Legos): Students can build something with the bricks, using multiplication to show the studs on individual building brick, then multiplication again to show how many of that particular brick was used to make the creation.
- Multiplication Arrays (in preparation of Area Model) : Use graph paper and playing cards. Have students flip two cards. Students create this multiplication array on the graph paper.
Fluency:
- Sums and Differences with playing Cards: Students roll dice to indicate how many cards they get to draw from the pile to build their first number. Roll again and build another number with the number of cards indicated on dice. Spin the spinner to show if the number will be added or subtracted. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive
- Free Ordering Decimals and Whole Numbers Cards: http://bit.do/dHNq4
- Race to 100: https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/race-one-hundred/
- Multiples Review: https://youtu.be/E-LoDEYWhAU
Closing (5 min): Relate back to learning and language objectives
- Class Journal
- Personal journal
- Partner talks
- Self assessment