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Before Thanksgiving break, kids get ansty! Get them out of their seats with this math activity that requires them to use: -group work (recommended to work with students of similar math abilities) -critical thinking -logical reasoning -real-life application (how to manage money shopping for Thanksgiving dinner) -multiplication of decimals (or repeated addition of decimals depending upon how far you've taught in your pacing calendar) Provided: -shopping lists (tiered to 5 levels of difficulty) -in

This activity can be used as a station or as a review after learning about relationships between digits in the base ten system. It focuses on X10, x100, x1000 the value and 1/10 the value, 1/100 the value and 1/1000 the value. Base 10 relationship question cards are provided. If you would like to purchase the bundle that includes all five stations ( Volume Creation, Geometry Guess Who, Long Division Station,and Operations With Fractions), you may do so here.

I use this in my Harry Potter 5th Grade Math Unit at the end of the year as a review. We do the unit after spring testing as a fun review of the 5th grade math standards from the year. This is a "broom race" activity. It gets students up and moving outside. Additional needed materials that are not included: stopwatch, 4 brooms Common Core Standards Covered: CC.5.NBT.7: Divide decimals to hundredths CC.5.MD.2: Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2,