Use the worksheet 2017 Census Data: Working for a Living 3 to help your fourth or fifth graders evaluate a bar graph with numbers represented as decimals. They will use the graph to compare and add the decimal numbers.
In this lesson, your students will play with cards to practice giving fractions a new decimal name. They will be able to convert fractions to decimals by the end of this lesson.
Get your students comfortable discussing their math thinking in converting centimeters to meters. This lesson may be used on its own or as support to the lesson Converting Metric Measurements to Decimals & Fractions.