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The purpose of this Warm-up is for students to analyze statements about quotients of whole numbers by 0.1 or 0.01. Students compare the value of quotients by 0.1 and 0.01. They can analyze the statements either by calculating the value of the expressions or reasoning about the relationship between 0.1 and 0.01, namely that there are ten hundredths in a tenth.
Decide if each statement is true or false. Be prepared to explain your reasoning.
“How can you prove this statement is true without finding the value of the expressions on both sides of the equal sign?” (I can think about the size of the quotients. They both show 6 being divided into groups, but the size of the groups is bigger in so there will be fewer groups.)
Small Grids Handout
The purpose of this activity is for students to find quotients of a whole number by tenths or hundredths. This activity focuses on divisors of 0.2 and 0.02 to build on students' previous work dividing by 0.1 and 0.01. The strategies, diagrams, and place value reasoning used in the previous lessons still apply. Students may also think about the problems using multiplication. For example, because .
Find the value of each expression. Explain or show your reasoning.
Find the value of each expression. Explain or show your reasoning.
Small Grids Handout
The purpose of this activity is for students to find the value of quotients where the divisor is less than 1 and where the dividend is large enough that drawing a complete diagram is cumbersome. Instead, students are encouraged to use a diagram to find how many divisor sized groups are in 1 whole and then multiply the dividend by that number to find the value of the quotient. When students use the value of and multiplication to find the value of , they are using regularity in reasoning (MP8).
This activity uses MLR1 Stronger and Clearer Each Time. Advances: Conversing.
Give students access to blackline masters with hundredths grids.
Find the value of the expression. Explain or show your reasoning. Use a diagram if it is helpful.
Explain how the expression relates to Tyler's reasoning.
Find the value of each expression.
“Today we divided whole numbers by decimals.”
Display and .
“In both these cases, 2 is being divided by a decimal number. Describe to your partner how you would find the value of each expression.” (I would use the 2 grids and divide them into groups of 0.2 or 0.5. Then I would see how many of them there are.)
Display and .
“How does your strategy for the first two expressions change with this set of problems? Why?” (The hundredths grids still help to visualize the 0.2s and 0.5s in one whole, but I don't want to draw 18 of them. So, I would multiply the 0.2s in 1 whole or the 0.5s in one whole by 18.)