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Adding Decimals Lesson Plan 2011

This lesson teaches students how to add decimals, specifically dollar amounts, in a 4-step process of lining up decimal points, adding columns from right to left, bringing down the decimal point, and adding the dollar sign. The lesson includes modeling the steps, guided practice with sample problems, and an independent practice worksheet for students to apply what they learned. The goal is for students to understand and correctly apply the steps to add numbers with decimals.

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Adding Decimals Lesson Plan 2011

This lesson teaches students how to add decimals, specifically dollar amounts, in a 4-step process of lining up decimal points, adding columns from right to left, bringing down the decimal point, and adding the dollar sign. The lesson includes modeling the steps, guided practice with sample problems, and an independent practice worksheet for students to apply what they learned. The goal is for students to understand and correctly apply the steps to add numbers with decimals.

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Lesson Plan #: AELP-ATH0204

Adding Decimals
An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan

Subject(s):

 Mathematics/Arithmetic

Duration: 30-45 minutes

Description: In this lesson, students learn how to add numbers that contain decimal points
(specifically dollar amounts).

Goal: Students will understand and be able to apply the steps of how to correctly add numbers
that contain decimals.

Objectives:

1. Students will be able to identify the steps in the 4-step process for adding numbers with
decimals (specifically dollar amounts).
2. Students will be able to complete a money problem worksheet with 80% accuracy.

Materials:

 set of play money for each student


 paper and pencils
 Adding Decimals Worksheet
 Adding Decimals Answer Key
Worksheet and Answer Key in .pdf format; requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Click the icon to obtain the free Reader.

Procedure:

Motivation:
Each student should have a set of play money (bills and coins) at their desks. Ask students to
show what $1.25 looks like and what $2.10 looks like. "How much money is that all together?"
($3.35) Give students another problem, such as $5.30 and $3.60. "How much money is that all
together?" ($8.90) Show students that the problems can also be set up as addition problems. Ask
students, "What would five dollars and thirty cents look like written on the board? What would
three dollars and sixty cents look like written on the board?" On the board, set up the addition
problem of $5.30 + $3.60. Ask students what the small dot is called (decimal point). Inform
students that today they will be learning how to add numbers that contain decimal points.

Instruction:
On the board, list the four step process for adding numbers that contain decimal points,
specifically dollar amounts. Model the process by using the example of $5.30 + $3.60:

1. LINE UP THE DECIMAL POINTS. (Stress this point throughout the lesson.)
2. Add the columns from right to left, ignoring the decimal points.
3. Bring the decimal point down – all of the decimal points in the problem should line up
(this is how you check your work). Explain that you can draw an imaginary line straight
down the problem that would go through all of the decimal points.
4. Bring down the dollar sign. (Explain that numbers containing decimal points are not
always money amounts, but for today all of the problems we will be working on will
have dollars and cents.)

Guided Practice:
Put another problem on the board: $12.15 + $20.50. Ask students to solve the problem at their
desks and then check their answers using the money manipulatives. Ask for a student volunteer
to solve the problem on the board. (Encourage the student to verbalize the steps in the process.)
Put more examples on the board for students to solve. Write the problems both vertically and
horizontally so that students will have practice with lining up the decimal points. Some sample
problems that can be used:

$13.64 + $24.31 = ?
$33.52 + $65.47 = ?
$53.76 + $4.43 = ?
$12.37 + $26.80 = ?

The teacher should walk around the room, checking everyone’s papers to be sure that all students
are setting up the problems correctly.

Independent Practice:
Give each student a worksheet with 10 money problems on it (see Materials ). Depending on
available time, the worksheet can be given as a class assignment or a homework assignment.

Assessment: Collect students' worksheets. Students will have an opportunity to correct their
work if needed.

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