Treasure Hunter (Decimals on the Number Line)
Drive a desert highway searching for buried treasure. Learn to use the car's tens, ones, tenths, and hundredths gears, along with a GPS system (number line), to find the right place to dig. Plot your find on a zoomable number line map. Can you become a master Treasure Hunter?
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Drive a desert highway searching for buried treasure. Learn to use the car's tens, ones, tenths, and hundredths gears, along with a GPS system (number line), to find the right place to dig. Plot your find on a zoomable number line map. Can you become a master Treasure Hunter?
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Use for 5 minutes a day.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Locate numbers on a number line.
- Estimate the positions of decimals on the number line, up to hundredths.
- Compare and order decimals using a number line.
- See that, between any two numbers, there are always more numbers.
VOCABULARY:
- decimal, hundredth, number line, tenth, whole number
LESSON MATERIALS:
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Google Doc of Student Exploration Sheet
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Math
Task Card: Treasure Hunter - Decimals on the Number Line
This task card can be used for remote learning or in class as a small group or individual activity. Stude... (more)nts will complete training sessions to find buried treasure using a car with tens, ones, tenths, and hundreths gears to get to specific decimals on a number line and record data on a table.
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Math
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4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade Math
User Recommendations (showing 5 of 8):
Great way to introduce or review decimals!
Recommended for: 5th Grade MathGizmo User from North Carolina
real life connection
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This is great! excellent real-life practice in the use of decimals
Recommended for: 4th Grade MathGizmo User from Ontario
Nice for decimal place value practice.
Recommended for: 4th Grade, 5th Grade MathGizmo User from Arkansas
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