Lesson Plan
Talk About Rounding Decimals
Boost your students' confidence in verbally sharing their math processes using grade-level vocabulary! This lesson on rounding decimals can be taught on its own or as support for the lesson Menu Math: Rounding Decimals.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to round decimals to the tenths and ones places.
Language
Students will be able to discuss the process of rounding decimals with grade level vocabulary using sentence stems/frames.
Introduction
(3 minutes)- Write 2.58 in the middle of a piece of chart paper and engage students in a brain dump session as a whole class in which they say everything they can about this number (some ideas students could give include two point five eight, two point fifty-eight, a decimal, between the whole numbers 2 and 3, etc.).
- Correct or confirm students ideas and record them on the chart in the space surrounding the number.
- Tell students that in the day's lesson they will focus on using fourth grade math vocabulary to discuss the process of rounding decimals. Have students choral read the student-facing content and lesson objectives.