Need a new activity to help teach, review, or reinforce learning decimals? Whether you’re teaching kids to add, subtract, multiply, or divide decimals, these fun and engaging These activities can be excellent resources for you to take advantage of. I hope it will be the key to unlock it.
1. Decimal Diner
Teach your students a real-life scenario of encountering decimals with this fun dinner activity. Your child selects menu items to create problems or answer word problems for independent practice with decimals.
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2. Christmas math
Looking for a decimal holiday themed activity? Introduce your students to Christmas with this cute decimal math center that converts to color coding by coloring pictures using a math color coding system that correlates to the answer. Invite the spirit to participate.
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3. Inside the box
Throwing a math party? Need to check out decimal multiplication? This card tossing game will help kids have fun while practicing multiplication with decimals. They must toss the card and hang the card number on the box where the card lands.
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4. Exchange
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Check out this fun and interesting way to use playing cards! Introduce the concept of cents and what comes after the decimal point by having students draw cards and compare who can make the largest number in cents.
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5. Online Decimal Games
4th and 5th graders can enjoy this online game as a refresher or practice converting decimal words to their decimal notation. Integrate 21st century learning and help children learn and improve their skills with such an engaging platform.
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6. Model representation
Another fun online game to help kids practice and hopefully understand the concept of fractions. This game contains virtual manipulations that children can use to represent the different fractions presented.
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7. Decimal introduction video
Set the stage for a solid lesson on decimals with this engaging and helpful video that answers pressing decimals questions. What are decimals? Introduce students to decimals and get some background before diving into work.
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8. Decimal comparison
Comparing decimals is one of the most difficult concepts to learn, but with a little practice and a lot of patience you can do it. Use this comparative decimal worksheet to help boost your math confidence.
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9. Language problems
Students cannot get enough practice with language problems. That’s why it’s so important to include practice worksheets. Understanding these equations requires both math and reading comprehension.
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10. Mass Blaster
Elementary school students will love that this game app, called Math Blaster, lets them play a real game along with their new decimal math knowledge. Each sniper game can be customized to include the math concepts your teacher is teaching.
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11. Hotel Decimalformia
Children can practice adding and subtracting decimals by following the characters in the game and figuring out which room number to take each guest to. Fun and challenging for students; this game is certainly one you’ll want in your pocket.
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12. Caribbean Decimals
Students swashbuckle across the Caribbean and shoot cannonballs at decimal numbers to get the right answer. Solve decimal problems and have fun.
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13. Decimal to Fraction Song
Help your students connect decimals and fractions with this toe-tapping fun video!
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14. Decimal point slider
Realize the concept of decimals by turning these positional sliders into decimal sliders. Students use these visual models to help incorporate concrete concepts of decimals. As an added bonus, the interactive version of this operation is very useful for ESE students.
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15. Place Value Kite
Another fun visual manipulation, kids will enjoy creating these fray-like models with figures of all shapes. These make for fun chimes and math openers to help kids practice writing the different ways decimals can be represented.
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