Decimal numbers on a string
Skogsbackeskolan
Karlstad
Age:
11-12
 

Aims:
How to name the decimal numbers and put them in right order

Lesson 1: You start with the tenth

2: Following up with the hundredth

3: You mix the tenth and hundredth

Materials:
Colored card for each lesson with decimal numbers written on them.

A string and clothes pegs

Vocabulary:
Decimal number, whole number, tenth, hundredth,

Introduction:
We use this exercise while we are working with decimal numbers

 

Main part:
Ten pupils get a card each and then they discuss in which order they are going to hang the cards on the string. Now they hang the cards. The other pupils look at the cards and checking if it's right. Now they have to read the decimal numbers aloud.

Roundup:
This exercise is both a practicing game of decimal number and a co-operation exercise. It´s very important to notice if the pupils can read the decimal numbers correctly.

   
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