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Yerang Cho Enya

Math
30mins
Grade 2 / Decimals
Lesson: Introduction to Decimals
Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
Decimal and place value. Unit test
Understanding of fraction.

Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)

What is numerator? The student will . . .
What is denominator? - understand decimal, decimal
What is decimal? point and tenths place.
- Any number shown with a - read and write decimals using
decimal point. tenths.
- Decimal is a method of writing
fractional numbers without
writing a fraction having a
numerator and denominator.
Place value
- Hundreds, tens, ones, decimal
point, tenths, hundredths.

Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies

5mins Beginning the Lesson
Can someone guess what I ate last night?
Its in here.
Pizza! So I brought it to show you hahaha
Put the pizza pieces on the board.

I went to pizza hut last night with my friends.

and one of my friends ate 4 pieces.
How should I write it in fraction?
4/10 of 10
I ate 2 pieces. How should we write it in fraction?
2/10 of 10

Today we will learn about Decimal

Who heard about decimal before?

5mins Developing the Lesson

Decimal is another way of writing fraction with a decimal point. But
only when the denominator is based ten numbers.
lets look at our place value.
tens, ones . tenths

Explain that we ordered only 1 pizza.

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Yerang Cho Enya
Math
30mins
Grade 2 / Decimals
What is our whole number? How many pizza do we have? not the pizza
pieces.
one.
We have different way of say that I ate 2 pieces of pizza from One big
pizza.
1/10 = 0.1 - number out of ten : its called tenths.
5mins
in tenths place the number is showing the number of equal parts out of
ten equal parts.

Lets practice.
I want 3 tenths of the pizza. how to write in decimal?
0.3

what if I give Josh rest of the pieces? how to say that in decimal?
7 tenths
and how to write?
0.7

3mins
Lets change our pizza to a long bread.
with manipulatives.
Lets say Yejin bought this one long bread.
and she cut them into ten pieces.
She gave - students names

How many ---- will have? and ---- can you come up and write the
fraction of the bread that you have?
Have 4 students to come up and right. If they cant, ask them step by step.

Emphasize that our denominator is 10.

12mins
After practicing together, give them the worksheet.
When they work on the worksheet, give the blocks as the manipulatives.

Formative Assessment Differentiation

Worksheet
MAB blocks - ones and tens
Resources
http://www.aaamath.com/B/g2_37ax1.htm

https://www.teachervision.com/decimals/understanding-decimal-place-value

Pizza pieces
Base ten manipulatives
Board
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Yerang Cho Enya
Math
30mins
Grade 2 / Decimals
worksheet