Sums of Decimal Products Game

Module 10, Lesson 1
Differentiation Activities

Extra Help: 
Students use tenths grids or number lines to model multiplying a whole number x a decimal.
Click here for full description and to access grid and number line sheets. 

Extra Practice
Students work in pairs and choose a recording sheet (grids or number lines). On their turn, students roll a cube and pick a card to make a multiplication problem and represent it on their recording sheet.  After 5 rounds, the partner with the greatest sum of products wins.  You can have students switch recording sheets the next time they play, or have everyone work on one type of sheet (grids or number lines.)

Sums of Products Recording Sheets and Decimal Cards

Points for Products

Module 8, Lesson 1
Extra Help, Practice, and Challenge







Students work in pairs to multiply fractions and whole numbers. There are several levels of cards so you can differentiate for your student needs. Students earn points depending on the size of their product.

Click here for scoring sheet and cards. 

Subtracting Fractions with Related Denominators

Module 7, Lesson 2 Differentiation Activities

These differentiation activities provide students an opportunity to develop their ability to work with subtracting related denominators. You can differentiate the difficulty by choosing which set of cards to use for pairs of students. If students need additional support changing denominators, use the support page linked below.


Extra Help & Practice - Fraction Cards from Support 24 (denominators of 5 and 10)

Extra Challenge - Fraction Cards from Extra Challenge 7.2 (denominators of 3, 6, 12, 18)

Link to Differentiation Activities and Printable Cards 
Support Page 

Rounding Roll Up

This workstation allows students to practice rounding decimals to any place. It can be used in partners or individually.  Be sure to print the number mat on legal sized paper so it fits the cards.

Student Sheet and Cards
Number Mat 

Partitioning Dividends

Module 6, Lesson 9
Extra Challenge



Give students the list of equations. Students take turns to roll and cube, which tells them the number of partitions a dividend must be split into to help calculate the answer. The first student to calculate the quotient wins. Alternatively, each student could roll until they get a different divisor and compare the parts they used to solve the equation.


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Adding Related Denominators

Module 6, Lesson 3
Extra Practice

Students work in pairs to add fractions. Students place the cards face up and, on their turn, select two cards with different denominators. Students estimate the sum, then calculate it exactly. Students who need additional support finding equivalent fractions can use the support page linked below.  Play continues until all cards are used.

Support Page
Full Description of Activity, Including Cards

Target 1: Adding Fractions with Like Denominators

Module 6, Lesson 2
Extra Challenge

Player 1 chooses a card and places it anywhere in one of the equations. Players alternate choosing cards and placing the fractions on their gamboard until all 5 equations for each player are completed. To score the game, players calculate total of all the sums of their equations. Students earn a bonus point for any equation with a sum equal to 1. Students continue playing for multiple rounds.

One option to help develop conceptual understanding is to have students model their equations on number lines or using fraction tiles.

Fraction Cards
Full description of activity, including game board and special instructions for Rounds 4 and 5. 

Technology Integration: Using Digital Geoboards to Create Parallelograms

Module 5, Lesson 10
Extra Practice

Assign groups of students to create different types of parallelograms using the digital Geoboard from The Math Learning Center. Call on groups students to display their shapes, asking the rest of the class to describe the features and characteristics of the shapes, as well as compare and contrast the attributes of each shape.Students can also take screen shots of their creations and share them with you in the Google Drive.

Tip:  Put the link to the geoboard website into your Google Classroom so students can navigate to it quickly.

Geoboard from The Math Learning Center
Full Description of Differentiation Activity

Restaurant Menu Math with Decimals

Module 3 Enrichment Activity 1

In this fun enrichment activity, students use decimal addition to calculate the cost of a meal at a restaurant. 

Be sure to bring in or print off some restaurant menus for your students. 

To make this even more engaging, consider having students fill in a "Guest Check" as if they were really at a restaurant.

Click for Full Description of Activity, Including Printable
Click for Printable Guest Check

Decimal Sums Closer to Ten

Module 5, Lesson 1
Extra Practice

In this partner activity, students create decimals and add them together. The goal is to have a sum closest to 10.

Recording Sheet

Equivalent Fractions

Module 4, Lesson 1
Extra Practice

This differentiation activity gives students an opportunity to practice generating equivalent fractions.

Spinner
Click here for full description of activity and fraction strips. 

Understanding Decimals Review

As you near the end of Module 3, you can engage students in this center/workstation that reviews many of the important concepts they've learned.  Students can use spinners/dice/cards to generate a decimal.  They then write their decimal as a number, represent it visually, write it in expanded form, and round to a particular place value. Place these sheets in a page protector, give students a dry erase marker, and you've got an easy, reusable workstation with very little prep!

Student Sheets

Comparing Decimals

Module 3, Lesson 8

Extra Help
Students work in pairs. Students create decimals spinners provided and place them on the game board with the objective being to create the greater decimal. Students also place their decimals on a number line in order to support their comparisons.

Spinner

Full Description of Activity, Including Game Board and Number Line Printables 

Representing Thousandths on a Grid

Module 3, Lesson 3
Extra Help

Students take turns pulling a card (same cards from Lesson 1) and shading thousandths grids. The first card represents tenths, second card represents hundredths, and the third card represents thousandths. Students identify/write the decimal they created  (0.__ __ __), show it on the expander, and also write it as a fraction.

Cards
Thousandths Grid in Differentiation Activity

Representing Tenths and Hundredths

Module 3, Lesson 1
Extra Practice

Students work in partners. Students roll a cube and pick a card (t = tenths, h = hundredths) to create a decimal. Students say their decimal aloud, then shade on a hundred square. The winner is the first to shade one (or greater than one) whole.


Cards
Hundred Grid from Differentiation Activities 

Representing Decimals on Grids and As Fractions

Module 3, Lesson 1
Extra Help

Students work in pairs or groups of three. Students generate decimals by picking cards or rolling a cube. One student writes the decimal in the form 0. __ __, another student shades the hundredths grid, and the third student writes the decimal as a fraction. Students alternate rolls as they continue the activity.

Option:  have one person locate the decimal on the number line and/or write it in expanded form.

Tip: Print each set of cards out on a separate color cardstock for easier organizing.

Cards 
Hundreds Grids from Differentiation Materials 

Layers Upon Layers

Module 2, Lesson 7: Developing the Idea of Volume
Extra Help

Partner A builds a base for a prism. (You might consider limiting the number of cubes students can use for their base.) Partner B arranges more blocks on the base to figure out the number of cubes in 5 layers. By using the "Layers Upon Layers" recording sheet, students will gain familiarity with one of the SBA Item Stems for this standard. Students alternate roles as they continue building prisms.


To differentiate this activity, students can roll a cube to determine the number of layers to build on their partner's base.

Layers Upon Layers Recording Sheet
Full Description of Activity

Working with the Multiplication Algorithm

Working with the Multiplication Algorithm
4th Grade Lesson 11.3

Extra Practice
Students roll a regular number cube and pick a card to create a two digit number. Students roll the cube again to get another single digit number. Students calculate the product of their numbers. The player with the greatest product scores one point.

Link to Cards