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Related Activities to Try at Home

Dear Families,

The activities below are related to the mathematics in the unit Between 0 and 1. You can use the activities to enrich your child's mathematical learning experience.

Everyday Decimals In this unit, students investigate decimals as ways to represent numbers less than 1 (e.g., 0.75 pound of deli cheese) and numbers between whole numbers (e.g., The marathon is 26.2 miles long.). You can build on your child's work in this unit by looking for everyday examples of decimals and talking about what they mean. Discuss problem situations that involve decimals as they arise.

• • Look in the newspaper or online at the weather statistics for your area. What is the average amount of precipitation for the month? How much rain or snow has there been so far this month? How close are you to the average?

  January average: 4.80 inches

  So far this month: 3.94 inches

• • Track your favorite sports teams' records.

  2014 baseball season:

  Wins: 71

  Losses: 91

  71  wins 162  games ≈ 0.438 fraction 71 , wins , over 162 , games end fraction . almost equal to , 0.438

  2015 baseball season:

  Wins: 78

  Losses: 84

  78  wins 162  games ≈ 0.481 fraction 78 , wins , over 162 , games end fraction . almost equal to , 0.481

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