Chapter 5 - Four Operations of Decimals

In this chapter, your child will learn to use the four operations to solve word problems involving decimals.
Skills your child will practice include:
• adding, subtracting, and multiplying decimals up to 2 decimal places
• multiplying and dividing decimals up to 3 decimal places by 10, 100, 1,000, their multiples, and powers of 10
• dividing decimals up to 2 decimal places by 1-digit whole numbers
• rounding quotients to the nearest tenth or hundredth
• estimating decimal sums, differences, products, and quotients
• converting from a larger metric unit to a smaller unit, and vice versa
• solving real-world problems

Decimal Videos to Watch:

operations with decimals

dividing whole numbers by whole numbers and getting a decimal answer

Metric Conversions

Chapter 1

Math in Focus Overview: Chapter 1 focuses on whole numbers up 10,000,000. We will be...  

• writing numbers in word form, standard, form and expanded form
• identifying the value of each digit in a number
• comparing numbers
• rounding numbers using front-end estimation
• using patterns to multiply and divide by multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000
• multiplying by powers of ten
• estimating products and quotients
• using order of operations
• solving real-world problems