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🧮 5th Grade · Math5.NBT.A.2Unit 1: Place value, powers of ten & decimals

Powers of ten

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🎯 Objective: Students use exponents for powers of 10 and explain zero patterns when multiplying or dividing by them.

Lesson outline

  1. Write 10¹, 10², 10³ and their values.
  2. Multiply and divide 4.5 by 10, 100 and 1,000; describe how the digits shift.
  3. Practice with whole numbers and decimals.
  4. Exit: 4.5 × 10² and 360 ÷ 10³.

Lesson 2 of 5 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.A.2

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain place value patterns, including powers of 10
  • Read, write, compare and round decimals to thousandths

✅ 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📚 All 5th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Place value, powers of ten & decimals”

  1. Ten times and one-tenth
  2. Powers of ten
  3. Decimals to thousandths
  4. Comparing decimals
  5. Rounding decimals

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