This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders an overview - thousandths.

Students will analyze data regarding regular grade fuel prices from 1992 to the present in order to identify patterns and infer possible reasons for changes in fuel prices. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This Common Formative Assessment (CFA) provides examples of assessment items for decimals in Grade 5 Cluster 5. This is remixable if you maintain the rigor of the items.

This lesson provides opportunities for students to compare and order decimals, add and subtract decimals, and estimate the reasonableness of sums and differences of decimals. This is remixable if you add additional supports for the range of learners.

Purpose: Engages students and introduces elements needed for building a playground.

In “Playground Palooza”, students will take the role of a playground designer responding to a request for a new playground at the school. Students will learn about numerical patterns, reading and writing decimals, rounding decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, converting measurements, volume, measuring volume, relating volume, coordinate planes, and attributes of 2D figures. Students will determine the total area of the new playground, determine the total area for each structure you want included on your playground, determine the volume of sand needed for the sandbox, use at least three playground structures, create a table of equipment and materials including company name, cost, quantity, and totals, create a coordinate system to display the center point for each structures or area on the playground, and submit a blueprint of their playground design.

***NOTE
This PBL was created before NC adopted the NC standards for Math. Therefore this PBL also addresses: rounding decimals.

This Olympic Math activity can be used with any set of olympic results in the men's 100m race, the men's 100m Butterfly, and the women's gymnastics finals. The activity can be remixed to be more relevant to the most current, and most discussed, Olympics events.

This is a fun interactive game in which students practice ordering decimals by choosing the correctly labeled pirate.

For this task, students explore the distance between 0 and 0.1 on the number line. Students must organize a series of decimals onto the number line. This activity requires students to pull together everything they know about decimals and our number system. Students will have the opportunity to engage in many of the mathematical practices when discussing with peers how they decided to arrange the numbers.

Purpose: Engages students and introduces elements needed for building a playground.

In “Playground Palooza”, students will take the role of a playground designer responding to a request for a new playground at the school. Students will learn about numerical patterns, reading and writing decimals, rounding decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, converting measurements, volume, measuring volume, relating volume, coordinate planes, and attributes of 2D figures. Students will determine the total area of the new playground, determine the total area for each structure you want included on your playground, determine the volume of sand needed for the sandbox, use at least three playground structures, create a table of equipment and materials including company name, cost, quantity, and totals, create a coordinate system to display the center point for each structures or area on the playground, and submit a blueprint of their playground design.

***NOTE
This PBL was created before NC adopted the NC standards for Math. Therefore this PBL also addresses: rounding decimals.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Math. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade Math. 

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fifth graders an overview of rounding decimal numbers.