Overview: Students will connect the understanding of the relationships between fractions and decimals.
Focus: Students will use their prior knowledge of fractions and decimals to make a connection between the models of fractions and decimals.
TEKS: 6.11(c), 6.12(a)
Lessons:
- Monday: Review for 6-week exam. No assignment.
- Tuesday: 6-week exam. No assignment.
- Wednesday: Converting decimals to fractions. Assignment is P. 205 (10-31) Note: Read the decimal “properly,” write as a fraction, and reduce.
- Thursday: Converting fractions to decimals. Assignment is P. 209 (1-10, 23-27, 31-33)
- Friday: Check writing assignment. Introduce semester project.