This Number Talk encourages students to rely on what they know about tenths and hundredths and about equivalent fractions to mentally solve problems. The reasoning elicited here will be helpful later in the lesson when students compare and order fractions and decimals.
Launch
Display one expression.
“Hagan una señal cuando tengan una respuesta y puedan explicar cómo la obtuvieron” // “Give me a signal when you have an answer and can explain how you got it.”
1 minute: quiet think time
Activity
Record answers and strategy.
Keep expressions and work displayed.
Repeat with each expression.
Student Task Statement
Encuentra mentalmente el valor de cada expresión.
Student Response
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Advancing Student Thinking
Activity Synthesis
Consider asking:
“¿Alguien puede expresar el razonamiento de _____ de otra forma?” // “Who can restate _____’s reasoning in a different way?”
“¿Alguien usó la misma estrategia, pero la explicaría de otra forma?” // “Did anyone have the same strategy but would explain it differently?”
“¿Alguien pensó en la expresión de otra forma?” // “Did anyone approach the expression in a different way?”
“¿Alguien quiere agregar algo a la estrategia de _____?” // “Does anyone want to add on to _____’s strategy?”
Activity 1
25 mins
Ordenemos una vez, ordenemos dos veces
Standards Alignment
Building On
Addressing
4.NF.C
Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
Use decimal notation for fractions with denominators 10 or 100. For example, rewrite as ; describe a length as meters; locate on a number line diagram.
In this activity, students encounter both fraction and decimal notation for tenths and hundredths and are asked to arrange them in order by size. They need to rely on their knowledge of equivalent fractions and of the relationship between these two ways of expressing values. Students look for and make use of structure (MP7), for instance, by identifying the digits that tell us about the ones, tenths, and hundredths in each number.
MLR8 Discussion Supports. Students should take turns placing a card in order and explaining their reasoning to their partner. Display the following sentence frames for all to see: “Observé _____, entonces puse . . .” // “I noticed _____ , so I put . . .” Encourage students to challenge each other when they disagree. Advances: Conversing, Representing
Action and Expression: Develop Expression and Communication. Synthesis: Identify connections between strategies that result in the same outcomes but use differing approaches.
Supports accessibility for: Memory
Launch
Groups of 2–4
Give each group one set of cards from the blackline master.
Activity
“En grupo, ordenen las fracciones y los decimales de menor a mayor. Anoten los números en orden” // “Work with your group to put the fractions and decimals in order, from least to greatest. Record the numbers in order.”
4–5 minutes: group work time
“Ahora encuentren un grupo que tenga tarjetas diferentes a las suyas. Ordenen todos los números de menor a mayor. Anoten los números en orden” // “Next, find a group with a set of cards different from yours. Put all the numbers in order, from least to greatest. Record the numbers in order.”
8–10 minutes: group work time
Monitor for the ways students compare fractions and decimals.
“Completen el último problema individualmente” // “Complete the last problem independently.”
3–4 minutes: independent work time
Student Task Statement
Su profesor les va a dar varias tarjetas que tienen números escritos como fracciones y en notación decimal.
En grupo, ordenen los números de menor a mayor. Anoten los números en orden.
Encuentren un grupo que tenga tarjetas distintas a las suyas. Junten sus tarjetas con las de ellos. Ordenen todas las tarjetas de menor a mayor. Anoten los números en orden.
Usen los números que ordenaron y los símbolos >, <, o = para hacer afirmaciones de comparación que sean verdaderas:
Activity Synthesis
Select students to share their ordered collection of 10 cards. Invite the class to agree or disagree with the arrangement.
“¿Qué fue lo primero que hicieron o miraron para empezar a ordenar? ¿Qué fue lo siguiente? ¿Y después?” // “What was the first thing you did or looked at to start ordering? What was the next thing? What came after that?” (We first looked at the digit in the ones place. Next, we decided to write the decimals with the same whole number as fractions and ordered the fractions.)
Activity 2
10 mins
Saltos largos
Standards Alignment
Building On
Addressing
4.NF.C
Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
In this activity, students compare and order decimals and fractions to solve problems about distances. They practice reasoning about tenths and hundredths expressed in different notations. Some of the distances are written to the tenths of a meter and others are written to the hundredths, prompting students to attend to the size of the decimals.
When students interpret and order the distances, they reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP2).
Launch
Groups of 2
“¿Cuánto creen que podrían saltar si corrieran muy rápido para tomar impulso? ¿Podrían saltar desde un lado del salón hasta el otro?” // “How far do you think you could jump if you ran really fast to gain speed for the jump? Could you jump from one side of the classroom to the other?”
“Piensen en esto por un momento. Luego, compartan su estimación con su compañero” // “Think about it for a moment, and then share your estimate with your partner.”
1 minute: partner discussion
Familiarize students with the long jump in track and field. Explain that the best long jumpers in the world, including Carl Lewis, can jump more than 8 meters or more than 26 feet.
Consider showing a video clip of long jumps.
Activity
“Tómense unos minutos para trabajar en la actividad. Luego compartan sus respuestas con su compañero” // “Take a few minutes to work on the task. Then share your responses with your partner.”
6–7 minutes: independent work time
3–4 minutes: partner discussion
Monitor for the ways students compare and order decimals and mixed numbers in the last problem.
Student Task Statement
El atleta estadounidense Carl Lewis ganó 10 medallas olímpicas y 10 campeonatos mundiales de atletismo (en carreras de 100 metros, carreras de 200 metros y pruebas de salto largo).
Estos son algunos de los récords de salto largo de su carrera profesional:
año
distancia (metros)
1979
8.13
1980
8.35
1982
8.7
1983
8.79
1984
8.24
1987
8.6
1991
8.87
De los saltos de la tabla, ¿cuál es la distancia del más corto? ¿Cuál es la distancia del más largo?
Estas son las mejores distancias, en metros, de otros 3 saltadores estadounidenses de salto largo:
Bob Beamon:
Jarrion Lawson:
Mike Powell:
Compara sus récords con el salto más largo de Carl Lewis. Ordena las distancias de mayor a menor.
Student Response
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Advancing Student Thinking
Activity Synthesis
See Lesson Synthesis.
Lesson Synthesis
“Hoy comparamos décimos y centésimos escritos como fracciones y como decimales” // “Today we compared tenths and hundredths written as both fractions and decimals.”
“¿Cómo compararon el mejor salto de Carl Lewis con los de los otros saltadores? ¿Cómo ordenaron los números?” // “How did you compare Carl Lewis’s best jump with those of the other jumpers and put the numbers in order?” (First, I wrote Carl Lewis’s time as a fraction in hundredths, . The fraction in tenths can be written as . All the numbers have 8 ones, so we ignored it and compared the hundredths.)
If time permits, invite students to share a general process for comparing any set of tenths and hundredths written in fraction and decimal notation.
Student Section Summary
Aprendimos a expresar décimas y centésimas en notacióndecimal, los ubicamos en la recta numérica y los comparamos.
Aprendimos que escrito en notación decimal es 0.1 y que este número también se lee “1 décima”. También aprendimos que escrito en notación decimal es 0.01 y se lee “1 centésima”.
La tabla muestra más ejemplos de décimos y centésimos en notación decimal.
Como y son equivalentes, los decimales 0.5 y 0.50 también son equivalentes.
De la misma manera, y son equivalentes, así que 1.7 y 1.70 también son equivalentes.
fracción
notación decimal
0.04
0.23
0.5
0.50
1.7
1.70
Los números escritos en notación decimal se pueden ubicar en la recta numérica para ayudarnos a compararlos.
Ejemplo:
El decimal 0.24 es equivalente a , que está entre y (es decir, entre y ) en la recta numérica. Podemos ver que 0.24 es mayor que 0.08 y menor que 0.61.
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Express a fraction with denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with denominator 100, and use this technique to add two fractions with respective denominators 10 and 100.Students who can generate equivalent fractions can develop strategies for adding fractions with unlike denominators in general. But addition and subtraction with unlike denominators in general is not a requirement at this grade.For example, express as , and add .
If students order the fractions and the decimals separately, consider asking:
“¿Cómo decidiste de qué manera organizar los números de menor a mayor?” // “How did you decide how to order the numbers from least to greatest?”
“¿Qué fracciones sería útil convertir en decimales (o al contrario)? ¿Cómo te puede ayudar eso a ordenar todos los números?” // “Which fractions would be helpful to think about as decimals (or the other way around)? How can that help you to order the entire set of numbers?”