Lesson Plan: Converting Fractions to Recurring Decimals Mathematics • 7th Grade
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to convert proper fractions into decimals, noting that the decimal expansion of a number either terminates or eventually repeats.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- convert proper fractions to terminating decimals by division,
- recognize repeating and recurring decimals and write appropriate notation for them,
- convert proper fractions to recurring or repeating decimals by division,
- solve word problems involving converting proper fractions to terminating and recurring decimals.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- fractions and decimals,
- long and short division methods,
- rounding,
- converting fractions to decimals by rewriting the fraction to have a denominator of 10, 100, or 1,000 or by using multiples of unit fractions.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- converting improper fractions or mixed numbers to terminating or recurring decimals,
- converting a terminating, repeating, or recurring decimal to a fraction,
- calculations with fractions and decimals, for example, multiplication.