🧮 4th Grade · Math4.NF.C.7Unit 9: Decimals: tenths & hundredths

Comparing decimals

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🎯 Objective: Students compare decimals to hundredths with models and reasoning.

Lesson outline

  1. Which is more: 0.5 or 0.45? Shade both grids.
  2. Compare using place value and money.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: 0.7 _ 0.69.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

4.NF.C.7

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write fractions with denominators 10 and 100 as decimals
  • Compare decimals to hundredths

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Decimals: tenths & hundredths”

  1. Tenths and hundredths
  2. Decimal notation
  3. Comparing decimals
  4. Decimals and money

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