Grade 04 Mathematics - EC: M04.A-F.3.1.3
Grade 04 Mathematics - EC: M04.A-F.3.1.3
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Use the symbols >, =, or < to compare 0.25
0.55
- Use the symbols >, =, or < to compare 0.30. 26
- Use the symbols >, =, or < to compare 0.800.8
- Jayla lives 0.28 miles away from the mall and her friend lives 0.43 miles away from the mall. Write a statement comparing the distance of Jayla and her friend to the mall, and identify who is closer. Explain your answer.
- The teacher wrote the following inequality on the front board and asked the students if it was correct? Identify the statement as true or false and justify your answer.
0.2 = 0.20
- Is the following statement always true? Explain your answer.
When comparing decimal values the decimal with the most digits after the decimal point is always the largest.
- Luke runs 0.55 miles on Saturday and 0.6 miles on Sunday. What day did he run the shorter distance? How would you write each decimal as a fraction? On Monday he is going to combine his runs from Saturday and Sunday. Will he run more or less than 1 mile? Explain.
Answer Key/Rubric
- <
- >
- =
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- 0.28 < 0.43
- Jayla lives closer to the mall than her friend
- 0.28 miles is a shorter distance to travel than 0.43 miles
- The inequality on the board is true.
Reasons might include, but are not limited to:
- Both the decimals are equal. If you add a zero to the end of a decimal it does not change how much it is worth.
= 0.20
- It is not always true.
Reasons might include, but are not limited to:
- When comparing decimal values you do not count the amount of digits to see which has a larger value.
- You have to compare the digits in each place value
- The length of the number doesn’t matter because you can always add zeros at the end of a decimal to make it the same length without changing its value
- Example 0.9 > 0.25418 because the first decimal has a 9 in the tenths place and the second one has a 2 in the tenths place. You don’t need to go any further to compare because 9 tenths is greater than 2 tenths.
- Luke ran the shorter distance on Saturday because 0.55 < 0.6
If he ran both of his Saturday and Sunday runs on Monday he would be running over 1 mile.
Reasons might include, but are not limited to:
- If you add the decimals you will get a 1.15 and the whole number 1 followed by the decimal values means the value is greater than 1.
- If you add the fractions you would get a numerator greater than the denominator and that would be a mixed number so you would get a value more than 1 whole.
