Decimal Operations – 5th Grade Math Curriculum Unit

This 5th grade math unit teaches decimal operations, from decimal sense through adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals. It is aligned to 5th grade standards and comes with scaffolded practice, activities and assessments.

Every lesson includes warm-ups, guided notes, practice pages and exit tickets. Mixed in are activities like puzzles, coloring pages, fold & flip notes and real-world application tasks.

What’s included

• Teacher planning calendar with pacing suggestions
• Editable lesson slides for direct instruction
• Guided notes and foldables
• Practice worksheets, application tasks, puzzles and coloring pages
• Student tracking pages for progress monitoring
• Binder covers and spine labels to keep it organized
• Digital assessments: a Google Forms™ pre-assessment, quizzes and a unit test
• Answer keys for every activity and assessment

Skills covered

• Understanding decimal place value and locating decimals on number lines
• Adding and subtracting decimals with models and traditional methods
• Multiplying decimals by whole numbers and by decimals
• Dividing decimals by whole numbers
• Applying decimal operations in real-world problem solving

Good to know

• Low prep and organized, with everything you need for 3+ weeks of instruction
• Differentiation is built in through a variety of practice styles and real-world tasks
• The materials are editable, so you can adjust them to fit your class
• Teach it as part of the full-year 5th Grade Math Curriculum or as a stand-alone decimals unit
• A digital version is available as the Digital Notebook Edition: Decimal Operations Digital Interactive Notebook for 5th Grade

Quick facts

• Topic: decimal operations
• Grade: 5
• CCSS: 5.NBT.A.2, 5.NBT.A.3b, 5.NBT.A.4, 5.NBT.B.7
• Answer key: included

Bundles and related resources

For more activities, there is a separate 5th Grade Math Supplementary Activity Bundle.

The 5th grade curriculum units are:

• Unit 1: Place Value
• Unit 2: Operations with Whole Numbers
• Unit 3: Decimal Operations
• Unit 4: Fraction Concepts
• Unit 5: Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
• Unit 6: Multiplication and Division of Fractions
• Unit 7: Patterns and The Coordinate Plane
• Unit 8: Geometry

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