UNIT 4: DECIMAL OPERATIONS
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Dear Parents and Guardians,
Welcome to Unit 4:Decimal Operations
Today, in class, your child received their Unit 4: Decimal Operations outline. It includes all of the learning targets taught in this unit, along with an example of each. In this unit students will be completing all four operations with decimals. Students will need to understand and apply the steps for completing each operation with decimals. Below you will find important information regarding your child’s new math unit, Decimal Operations. You will find the skills that your child should already have mastered in order to succeed in this unit. You will also find information about the major assignments that will affect your child’s grade for this unit.
Prerequisite Skills:
Mastery Quizzes: 50 pts. each
Mastery quizzes are short quizzes that assess 2 – 3 learning targets. Your child will be given this quiz once the learning targets have been taught in class. The best way to prepare for these quizzes is by completing classwork and homework. If your child is struggling with homework assignments please contact us, or have your child attend an extra help session.
Unit Test: 100 pts. Approximate date:______1/30/17__________________
Your student to review his or her notes to study for this exam
Performance Task: 100 pts.: Approximate date:_____1/31/17___________________
This is an in class assessment. It is a multi-step word problem, similar to the kind of questions students will see on Day 3 of the NYS test.
Culminating Project: 100 pts.
The culminating project will be assigned in the middle of the unit. It will not be due until the end of the unit. It will assess all learning targets. You will be able to access this on
Learning Activities
Your child will be completing a variety of learning activities in class that reflect the learning targets for Unit 4. These will be graded, and you will be able to track your child’s progress online.
Thank you for your continued support.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions!
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Welcome to Unit 4:Decimal Operations
Today, in class, your child received their Unit 4: Decimal Operations outline. It includes all of the learning targets taught in this unit, along with an example of each. In this unit students will be completing all four operations with decimals. Students will need to understand and apply the steps for completing each operation with decimals. Below you will find important information regarding your child’s new math unit, Decimal Operations. You will find the skills that your child should already have mastered in order to succeed in this unit. You will also find information about the major assignments that will affect your child’s grade for this unit.
Prerequisite Skills:
- Place value
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division of whole numbers
- Unit rate
- Determining the percent of a quantity
- Determining the total amount from a percentage
- Determining a percentage from a fraction
Mastery Quizzes: 50 pts. each
Mastery quizzes are short quizzes that assess 2 – 3 learning targets. Your child will be given this quiz once the learning targets have been taught in class. The best way to prepare for these quizzes is by completing classwork and homework. If your child is struggling with homework assignments please contact us, or have your child attend an extra help session.
- Mastery Quiz #1:
- I can add and subtract decimals
- I can multiply decimals
- Mastery Quiz #2:
- I can divide a decimal by a whole number.
- I can divide a whole number by a decimal.
- I can divide a decimal by a decimal.
- Mastery Quiz #3:
- I can identify the correct operation to solve a word problem with decimals.
- I can solve real world unit rate problems with decimals.
- I can solve real world percent problems.
Unit Test: 100 pts. Approximate date:______1/30/17__________________
Your student to review his or her notes to study for this exam
Performance Task: 100 pts.: Approximate date:_____1/31/17___________________
This is an in class assessment. It is a multi-step word problem, similar to the kind of questions students will see on Day 3 of the NYS test.
Culminating Project: 100 pts.
The culminating project will be assigned in the middle of the unit. It will not be due until the end of the unit. It will assess all learning targets. You will be able to access this on
Learning Activities
Your child will be completing a variety of learning activities in class that reflect the learning targets for Unit 4. These will be graded, and you will be able to track your child’s progress online.
Thank you for your continued support.