Lesson Plan: Modeling Tenths Mathematics • 4th Grade
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to represent tenths with a model, a fraction, a decimal, and words.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- model any number of tenths,
- write a fraction with a denominator of 10 as a decimal,
- write any number of tenths as a fraction and a decimal,
- understand that the decimal point separates the whole part of the number from the fractional part.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- place value of 3-digit numbers,
- how the place value of digits changes when we multiply or divide by ten,
- how to read, write, and model fractions with 10 in the denominator.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- modeling decimals on number lines.
