Decimal Numbers and their Names Card Sort Activity
Teach students to say/read decimal numbers by their correct place-value names (e.g. '.5' as 'five tenths'), up to the thousandths place, via a card sort or memory game.
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Teach students to say/read decimal numbers by their correct place-value names (e.g. '.5' as 'five tenths'), up to the thousandths place, via a card sort or memory game.
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