IM 6.5.3 Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Decimals with Few Non-Zero Digits
Evaluate mentally:
Decide if each equation is true or false.
Explain your reasoning.
Explain your reasoning.
Explain your reasoning.
Andre and Jada drew base-ten diagrams to represent . Andre drew 11 small rectangles. Jada drew only two figures: a square and a small rectangle.
If both students represented the sum correctly, what value does each small rectangle represent?
What value does each square represent?
Describe a diagram that could represent the sum , OR draw it in the applet below.
Draw a diagram that could represent the sum 0.008 + 0.07
Here are two calculations of .
Which is correct? Explain why one is correct and the other is incorrect.
Compute each sum. If you get stuck, consider drawing base-ten diagrams on the applet below to help you.
The applet has tools that create each of the base-ten blocks. This time you need to decide the value of each block before you begin.
- Select a Block tool, and then click on the screen to place it.
- Click on the Move tool (the arrow) when you are done choosing blocks.
- Subtract by deleting with the delete tool (the trash can), not by crossing out.
To represent 0.4 - 0.03, Diego and Noah drew different diagrams. Each rectangle represented 0.1. Each square represented 0.01.
Diego started by drawing 4 rectangles to represent 0.4. He then replaced 1 rectangle with 10 squares and crossed out 3 squares to represent subtraction of 0.03, leaving 3 rectangles and 7 squares in his diagram.
Noah started by drawing 4 rectangles to represent 0.4. He then crossed out 3 of rectangles to represent the subtraction, leaving 1 rectangle in his diagram.
Do you agree that either diagram correctly represents ? Discuss your reasoning with a partner.
To represent 0.4 - 0.03, Elena drew another diagram.
She also started by drawing 4 rectangles. She then replaced all 4 rectangles with 40 squares and crossed out 3 squares to represent subtraction of 0.03, leaving 37 squares in her diagram.
Is her diagram correct? Discuss your reasoning with a partner.
Find each difference. If you get stuck, you can use the applet below to represent each expression and find its value.
Explain how you got your answer.
Explain how you got your answer.
Explain how you got your answer.
Explain how you got your answer.
The applet has tools that create each of the base-ten blocks. This time you need to decide the value of each block before you begin.
- Select a Block tool, and then click on the screen to place it.
- Click on the Move tool (the arrow) when you are done choosing blocks.
- Subtract by deleting with the delete tool (the trash can), not by crossing out.
A distant, magical land uses jewels for their bartering system. The jewels are valued and ranked in order of their rarity.
Each jewel is worth 3 times the jewel immediately below it in the ranking. The ranking is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. So a red jewel is worth 3 orange jewels, a green jewel is worth 3 blue jewels, and so on. At the Auld Shoppe, a shopper buys items that are worth 2 yellow jewels, 2 green jewels, 2 blue jewels, and 1 indigo jewel. If they came into the store with 1 red jewel, 1 yellow jewel, 2 green jewels, 1 blue jewel, and 2 violet jewels, what jewels do they leave with? Assume the shopkeeper gives them their change using as few jewels as possible. You may use the applet below to keep track of your work.