Learning Through Play

This unit opener contains suggested talking points when beginning your discussion of decimal numbers. This resource is interactive and fun for students. The lessons included are only suggestions and are not intended to be followed directly, but you could if you wanted to. These lessons activate student schema by drawing connections between decimal numbers, money, and fractions. The focus of this resource is decimal place value: reading decimal numbers, understanding place value, comparing decim

This is an animated presentation (power point) that I created to teach my students how to use the staircase method. The presentation walks students through the method step by step and makes learning this difficult concept easy! INCLUDED: *Animated presentation that models the concept and gives group practice at the end *Note taking printables that can be glued into science notebook *Full page color printable of the staircase. Print these out and laminate them so that students can practice wi