5.NBT.B.7
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
Summative Assessment Task
Students determine how many miles a teacher rides her motorcycle to school and back home again. Students also determine if the teacher stays within her gas budget if she rides to school and back five days a week for four weeks.
Instructional Tasks/Formative Assessments
Students determine which of two stores is offering the better buy on plastic plates.
Students determine how much money is earned for an end of the year field trip.
Students determine how much money three girls spent on their individual insect collections.
Students determine how a family can get their laundry washed, dried and folded for the least amount of money, and done in the quickest amount of time.
Students determine the total rainfall for the first week of March and compare totals for the same time period over several years.
Students determine who ate the most snack bars and how many total snack bars were eaten amongst a group of friends.
Students determine who will save more money at a buy-one-get-one-half-off sale on baseball jerseys.