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🧮 5th Grade · Math5.NBT.B.7Unit 4: Operations with decimals

Decimal word problems

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🎯 Objective: Students solve real-world decimal problems (shopping, measurement).

Lesson outline

  1. Plan a class party: 3 pizzas at $11.75, juice at $2.49 a bottle.
  2. Solve and compare totals with a $50 budget.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one problem.

Lesson 6 of 6 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

5.NBT.B.7

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to hundredths
  • Explain the reasoning used

✅ 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”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Decimals: all four operations🧮 Scientific calculator📚 All 5th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Operations with decimals”

  1. Adding and subtracting decimals
  2. Multiplying decimals by whole numbers
  3. Multiplying decimals by decimals
  4. Dividing decimals by whole numbers
  5. Dividing by decimals
  6. Decimal word problems

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