5th Grade SGI Collaboration Think Tank by Renee Baker

2024-12-17 15:34:24 UTC

Can you explain why do we have to align the decimals before we add or subtract decimals?

Why do you think we would have to move the decimals out before we multiply or divide your decimals?

2024-12-17 15:36:43 UTC

The importance of decimals is essential to your daily life. Can you give me examples where you would need to use decimals?

Decimals

2024-12-17 15:38:30 UTC

How many places will the decimal move and how do you know?

If we need to continue dividing with a decimal problem, what do we do?

2024-12-17 15:38:32 UTC

Sentence Stem for Level 2 Question:

The reason we have to align the decimals before we add or subtract decimals because _____________________.

I think to move out the decimals out before we multiply or divide is because ___________.

Decimals

2024-12-17 15:39:35 UTC

The decimal will move ___ spaces when multiplying because I count______.

2024-12-17 15:41:03 UTC

On division, does the dividend has to be always the greater number?

And if not, how con you divide a dividend smaller than a divisor?

Example 7 divided by 8.

2024-12-17 15:41:31 UTC

I can divide a smaller dividend by a greater divisor by ________ and _________.

2024-12-17 15:45:43 UTC

Can you tell what is the first step to start dividing a decimal by a whole number? What do you have to do with the decimal point?

When you are multiplying 2 decimals, how do you know where to place the decimal point in the product?

2024-12-17 15:49:26 UTC

The first step to divide a decimal by a whole number is _________________

Multiplication by 2 digit

2024-12-17 16:00:33 UTC

Imagine you are multiplying a number with another number of 3 digits. Why do we need to shift one place when you focus on the digit in the tens place of that number? Why do we need to shift two places when you focus on the digit in the hundreds place of that number?

Model representation

2024-12-17 16:08:22 UTC

Could we use base 10-blocks to represent tens and tenths? Could we use one block to represent the ones-place and the thousandths places? Why is that possible?