Measuring sticks: Decimals

In this lesson, students learn about place value and how it extends beyond whole numbers. They use drinking straws to model decimals.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 4
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching, Questioning, Feedback
Keywords	Maths Hub lesson plan, decimals, tenths, hundredths
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Measurement
Topics	Decimals, Using units of measurement
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M4N01 Recognise and extend the application of place value to tenths and hundredths and use the conventions of decimal notation to name and represent decimals AC9M4N03 Find equivalent representations of fractions using related denominators and make connections between fractions and decimal notation AC9M4M01 Interpret unmarked and partial units when measuring and comparing attributes of length, mass, capacity, duration and temperature, using scaled and digital instruments and appropriate units
Numeracy progression	Number and place value (P7) Counting processes (P8) Interpreting fractions (P5) Understanding units of measurement (P6)
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