Currently we are working on Multiplying and Dividing Decimals

Our TEKS say that we must

• solve for products of decimals to the hundredths, including situations involving money, using strategies based on place-value understandings, properties of operations, and the relationship to the multiplication of whole numbers;

• epresent multiplication of decimals with products to the hundredths using objects and pictorial models, including area models

• solve for quotients of decimals to the hundredths, up to four-digit dividends and two-digit whole number divisors, using strategies and algorithms, including the standard algorithm

• represent quotients of decimals to the hundredths, up to four-digit dividends and two-digit whole number divisors, using objects and pictorial models, including area models

Students have definitely been developing a deeper understanding of decimals as apparent on our latest anchor chart.  This deeper understanding will help as we move into multiplying and dividing decimals.  Please refrain from showing your child how to "just count the places and move the decimal" as we want them to have a deep understanding of the concept before we teach a strategy.

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Multiplying and Dividing fractions. 

Our TEKS says that we must 

• represent and solve multiplication of a whole number and a fraction that refers to the same whole using objects and pictorial models, including area models

• divide whole numbers by unit fractions and unit fractions by whole numbers

  • represent division of a unit fraction by a whole number and the division of a whole number by a unit fraction such as 1/3 ÷ 7 and 7 ÷ 1/3 using objects and pictorial models, including area models

Students are quick to move to the standard way of solving these problems, but we need them to also be able to create a visual model.

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