Name: Erin Percacciolo

Date: April 23, 2014

Target Grade Level: 4th Grade

Curriculum Topic: Adding with decimals

UbD Lesson Plan Template

Stage 1: Desired Results
Established Goals: NS 2.1: Estimate and compute the sum or
difference of whole numbers and positive decimals to two
places.
Understandings:
Students will understand
Adding tenths or hundredths with decimals.

Essential Question(s):
How do we add/subtract with
decimals?
Is place value important when
adding and subtracting with
decimals?

Students will know.

The addition algorithm for adding with decimals.
How to add/subtract decimals using a vertical format.

Students will be able to

Add tenths or
hundredths with
decimals.

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Performance Tasks:
o Add tenths without renaming (borrowing). Discuss tasks A
and B in textbook page 53. Tell students that for these two
tasks, tenths are added and subtracted without renaming.
o Demonstrate Task 1, Textbook p. 36 on the board. Have
students give the answer on their white boards and hold it
up.
o Rename tenths and hundredths: Do some renaming activities
for tenths and hundredths. Illustrate the first few with
number discs (optional). Change ten-tenths for a one, or
change ten hundredths for a tenth. Have students record the
activities both in words, for the place values, and in numerals

Other Evidence:
Use textbook page 53 to
demonstrate this principle.
(Display the textbook page
using the Elmo or an
overhead projector)
15 tenths = 1 one 5 tenths
= 1.5
15 hundredths = 1 tenth 5
hundredths
= 0.15
28 tenths = 2 ones and 8 tenths

= 2.8
73 hundredths = 7 tenths 3
hundredths
= 0.73

on their white boards.

Add tenths with renaming (borrowing): Show workbook

under Elmo for students to follow along. Students may also
use discs to assist them in grasping the concept. Set up a
place value chart.
Ones
Tenths
0.1

0.1 0.1

0.1

0.1 0.1

Tasks 2-3, Textbook p. 36

Place value chart and addition
algorithm.

0.1
0.1

0.1 0.1

0.1 0.1

0.1

1
0.7
+0.6
1.3
o

Put 7 tenths discs on the place value chart. Write 0.7 on the
board. Put another 6 tenth discs on the chart. Write + 0.6
under the 0.7. Ask students how many tenths there are now.
Ask them what to do when there are too many 0.1-discs. Tell
them that because there are ten 0.1-discs, they can replace
those ten disc with a 1-disc.
Write the renamed 1 in the one place above the 0.7 and 3
under the line, then the decimal point. Add up the ones,
which here is only 1, and write that below the line. Inform
the students that we use a vertical format to add decimals
and this is how theyre problem should be set up when
adding decimals. The decimal point and place values must be
aligned accordingly.
Have the students then complete task 4, Textbook p.37.
Display the book using the overhead Elmo and have the

White board exercise /

number discs / Elmo display

Textbook p. 37 Task 4

students respond to the questions using their white boards.

Prepare addition questions. Divide students into 2 groups.
Have one student from each group come to the board to get
ready to answer. Read a question and have the to students
compete to solve it on the board (or using individual group
white boards) using the addition algorithm. The student (or
group) who gets the correct answer first wins a point for the
group. The winning group is the one with the highest score.
Have the students complete Workbook Exercise 1, p. 42

Stage 3: Learning Plan

Learning Activities:
White board activities in correspondence with the problems
in the textbook.
Class discussion
Disc assessment
Group Activity (competition)

Resources

Primary Mathematics Textbook (Singapore Math)

Primary Mathematics Workbook (Singapore Math)
Decimal Disc Set
White Boards
Dry Erase Markers
Erasers / Tissues (Something to erase the whiteboards with)
Elmo / Overhead Projector

Workbook p. 42