Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
Concrete:
- Use rules for rounding.
- If last number is five or more, round to the next highest tenth.
- If the last number is four or less, round to the next lowest whole number.
- Identify "tenths" on a number line between 0 and 1.
- Make comparisons between similar/different with concrete representations (i.e., is this set of manipulatives [8 ones] closer to this set [a 10] or this set [a one]?
- Understand the following vocabulary:
- Fraction (a/b)
- Decimal (.a)
- Tenths (.1)
- Hundredths (.10)
| Number: MAFS.5.NBT.1.AP.4b | Category: Access Points |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14 |
Cluster:
Understand the place value system. (Major Cluster) : Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters. |