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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number Measurement
- Topic
- Decimals Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Number and place value (P7) Counting processes (P8) Interpreting fractions (P5) Understanding units of measurement (P6)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- decimal
- Other terms
- Maths Hub lesson plan tenths hundredths
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