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Family Activity: Adding and Subtracting Decimals
In this math worksheet, students work at home with a family member to add and subtract decimals in a sample check register. Students add deposits, subtract withdrawals and determine the balance of the account.
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6-8 Baseball Fun: Percentages, Decimals, and Fractions
Middle schoolers practice the concepts behind fractions, decimals, and percents by using sports statistics on baseball cards. In this baseball math lesson plan, students use fractions and estimation to calculate statistics. Middle...
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Estimating
In this estimating worksheet, students solve 6 different problems that include some form of estimation in each. First, they define estimate as a way to round their answers sensible and carry out the calculation by hand. Then, students...
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Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Pupils connect different mathematical concepts. They create a circle graph. Students then create a question in which they collect data in order to convert fractions to decimals and decimals to percents.
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Practice With Decimals
In this decimal worksheet, students solve decimal problems, estimating, balancing a checkbook, and finding the cost of a car using a given chart.
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Estimating With Decimals
In this math worksheet, students complete 14 problems where they estimate money amounts and multiplication products using numbers with decimals. Examples are provided in this well-designed worksheet.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Where Are We Going?
Come take a ride on the space bus! Scholars go on an imaginary trip to pick up their peers from the inner and outer planets while reinforcing math skills. First, learners round decimals to identify each planets' distance from Earth....
Noyce Foundation
Mixing Paints
Let's paint the town equal parts yellow and violet, or simply brown. Pupils calculate the amount of blue and red paint needed to make six quarts of brown paint. Individuals then explain how they determined the percentage of the brown...
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Drop it or not?
Learners explore fractions. In this fraction lesson, students play an interactive game and use manipulatives to practice working with fractions.
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Writing Fractions as Decimals
In this fractions to decimals worksheet, students write a set of 6 given fractions as decimals, rounding to five decimal places. A reference web site for additional resources is given.
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Scale Drawing Lesson Plan
Students calculate actual building measurements from a village map using concepts of ratios and scale in this ten lesson plan mini-unit. They practice measuring angles, multiplying decimals, estimating height and length, and converting...
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Metric Conversion
In this metric conversion worksheet, students problem solve fourteen exercises where they convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
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Estimating Expenses
In this estimation worksheet, students estimate expenses of different items by solving word problems. Students estimate expenses for 5 problems.
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Decimals: Collaborative Lesson
Students explore mathematics by participating in a group activity. In this number value lesson, students identify the uses for decimals and how to best estimate whole numbers based on decimals and fractions. Students collaborate with...
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Why Guess When You Can Estimate
They apply various strategies in their estimations. They analyze the differences between guessing and estimating. They estimate the number of beans and jellybeans in egg cartons and jars respectively.
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Measurement Scavenger Hunt
Students review estimation, measurement, fractions, decimals while familiarizing themselves with a new classroom at the beginning of the year.
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Decimal word problems
In this decimals learning exercise, learners complete word problems having to do with decimals up to 4 digit numbers. Students complete 10 multiple choice problems.
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Decimal Rounding
In this decimal worksheet, students round decimal numbers to a place given and submit answers on-line. Students use the tab button to progress to the next question.
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Estimating with Decimals
In this decimal learning exercise, students estimate sums, differences, products or quotients in a set of 35 decimal problems. Text pages are given, but text name is not included.
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Metric Meals
Sixth graders investigate metric measurements. In this metric measurement lesson, 6th graders explore mass, capacity, and length. Students examine graduated cylinders and balance scales to obtain measurements. Resources are provided.
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Estimate Products of Mixed Numbers
Practice, practice, practice! There are 35 problems to solve on this handout, all of them involving the multiplication of mixed numbers. Although the publisher has tagged it as designed for several Common Core standards, there are no...
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Decimal Word Problems
In this decimals worksheet, students solve 10 different word problems that include using decimals. First, they determine the amount of change received from a cashier given a specific amount. Then, students write a decimal representing...
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Store Wide Sale
Students practice figuring percentages by solving written shopping problems. For this consumer math lesson, students read several scenarios dealing with items on sale and must figure out the new price. Students check their work with a...
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The Golden Rectangle
Middle schoolers explore the concept of the golden ratio. For this golden ratio lesson, students measure objects to determine if their measurements fit the golden ratio. Middle schoolers calculate the average measurements of the class.