In real life situations at school, we've discovered that decimals are used for money and for recording race times -we timed ourselves with stop watches and read our "decimal" race times!
Now can you help us please? In what real life situations have you used decimals? How else can we work with decimals at school?
We used decimals at work when weighing patients.
ReplyDeleteI also use decimals at work when I fill in my time sheet
What do you think I am doing with the following ? I need decimals (or fractions) when doing this .
ReplyDeleteMelted butter, to grease
530g (2.5 cups) caster sugar
250g dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
250g unsalted butter, chopped
185ml (0.75 cup) freshly brewed strong espresso coffee
225g (1.5 cups) self-raising flour
80g (0.75 cup) cocoa powder
100g (1 cup) almond meal
125g (0.5cup) sour cream
4 eggs, lightly whisked
2 tsp vanilla essence
Cocoa powder, extra, to dust
Whipped cream (optional), to serve
We like your pictures! It makes the blog post more fun to read.
ReplyDeleteHere are some ways we use decimals:
Adding money
Time
Percentages
Shopping for clothes
Shopping for groceries
Shoe sizes
Calculators
Weight
Height
Length of yourself
Width of yourself
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Hello Middles!
ReplyDeleteI have been doing some sewing lately and I had to measure out lengths of material. I was measuring in metres but it wasn't always an even number of metres. Sometimes the material measured out in metres and centimetres,
eg: 1m and 25cm so then I'd think, well that's the same as 1.25m.
Hope you're all having fun...not long til the holidays! Yay!!
Love from Margie (Joe's mum)
Thanks for all the comments. Today we read them all and discussed "where the decimals were!" It really helped us!
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher, I gave myself some warm feedback! I used a lot more real-life situations to teach decimals this year and I think that worked! Middles- you are awesome students when it comes to Maths!
Mrs Yore