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Add and multiply decimals: 5th grade math

Add, subtract, multiply, divide decimals to hundredths with models. A free 5th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: add, subtract, multiply, divide decimals to hundredths with models.

Teach (10 min)

  • Line up the dots, so tenths sit over tenths and hundredths over hundredths.
  • Then add or take away like whole numbers: 2.71 + 1.25 = 3.96.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/decimals.addSub?lesson=5-decimals&at=5

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. 6.59 − 0.42
  • 2. 5.01 + 9.22
  • 3. 5.27 − 1.78

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. 6.59 − 0.42
  2. 5.01 + 9.22
  3. 5.27 − 1.78
  4. 9.98 − 5.10
  5. 4.15 − 3.36
  6. 4.71 + 5.38
  7. 9.32 − 6.88
  8. 0.28 + 0.82
  9. 7.50 + 0.69
  10. 3.00 − 0.93
Answers
  1. 6.17
  2. 14.23
  3. 3.49
  4. 4.88
  5. 0.79
  6. 10.09
  7. 2.44
  8. 1.1
  9. 8.19
  10. 2.07

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Add and multiply decimals (5th grade)

  1. 5.73 − 2.23
  2. 2.81 + 4.51
  3. 9.69 + 8.80
  4. 8.64 + 8.17
  5. 4.75 + 8.97
  6. 3.84 + 5.23
  7. 9.90 − 8.16
  8. 4.77 − 4.31
  9. 9.54 − 7.20
  10. 6.41 − 5.49
  11. 6.98 + 7.73
  12. 6.77 + 5.77
Key
  1. 3.5
  2. 7.32
  3. 18.49
  4. 16.81
  5. 13.72
  6. 9.07
  7. 1.74
  8. 0.46
  9. 2.34
  10. 0.92
  11. 14.71
  12. 12.54

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