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Lesson 5: Decimal Points in Products

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teaches Common Core State Standards 6.EE.A http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
teaches Common Core State Standards 6.NS.B http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
teaches Common Core State Standards MP7 http://corestandards.org/Math/Practice/MP7
teaches Common Core State Standards MP8 http://corestandards.org/Math/Practice/MP8
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In earlier grades, students have multiplied base-ten numbers up to hundredths (either by multiplying two decimals to tenths or by multiplying a whole number and a decimal to hundredths). Here, students use what they know about fractions and place value to calculate products of decimals beyond the hundredths. They express each decimal as a product of a whole number and a fraction, and then they use the commutative and associative properties to compute the product. For example, they see that \((0.6)⋅(0.5)\) can be viewed as \(6⋅(0.1)⋅5⋅(0.1)\) and thus as \(\left(6 \cdot \frac{1}{10}\right) \cdot \left(5 \boldsymbol \cdot \frac {1}{10}\right)\). Multiplying the whole numbers and the fractions gives them \(30 \boldsymbol \cdot \frac{1}{100}\) and then 0.3. 

Through repeated reasoning, students see how the number of decimal places in the factors can help them place the decimal point in the product (MP8).

Lesson overview

  • 5.1 Warm-up: Multiplying by 10 (5 minutes)
  • 5.2 Activity: Fractionally Speaking: Powers of Ten (15 minutes)
  • 5.3 Activity: Fractionally Speaking: Multiples of Powers of Ten (15 minutes)
    • Includes "Are you Ready for More?" extension problem
  • Lesson Synthesis
  • 5.4 Cool-down: Placing Decimal Points in Products (5 minutes)

Learning goals:

  • Generalize (orally and in writing) that the number of decimal places in a product is related to the number of decimal places in the factors.
  • Justify (orally) the product of two decimals, which each have only one non-zero digit, by multiplying equivalent fractions that have a power of ten in the denominator.

Learning goals (student facing):

  • Let’s look at products that are decimals.

Learning targets (student facing):

  • I can use place value and fractions to reason about multiplication of decimals.

Glossary:

  • Access the complete Grade 6 glossary.

Standards

  • This lesson builds on the standards:CCSS.5.NBT.B.7MS.5.NBT.7MO.5.NBT.A.6MO.5.NBT.A.7MO.5.NBT.A.8 CCSS.5.NBT.A.2MS.5.NBT.2MO.5.NBT.A.4

 

 

 

 

 

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