Decimals on Grids and Number Lines

We wrapped up our geometry unit on Wednesday and have now begun our study called Decimals on Grids and Number Lines.  You can read an overview of this unit in the parent letter.  Over the next month, students will be developing an understanding of the relationships among fractions and decimals by building on what they learned during our recent study of fractions.  We begin this unit with practice reading, writing, and interpreting decimal fractions to the thousandths.  You can reinforce this work at home by making real life connections.  We see decimals everyday when talking about money, measuring rain/snowfall amounts, reading car odometers, or looking at race results or batting averages for example.  Encourage your child to read these decimals while using the words tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.  We will quickly move into ordering decimals as we use our understanding of place value to determine the magnitude of fractions.  You can read more about the unit of the link to the parent letter above.