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Managing Your Money Nonfiction Reading Level: Grade 6 -7 GRL: Z DRA: 70 Students are continuously learning how math can be implemented within everyday life. This book explains how to set up and manage saving and checking accounts, budgeting money and understanding interest. All of this will be done with the use of decimals. This type of text may be on a higher difficulty level than what most sixth graders are accustomed to reading, but it is still good exposure. Linde, B. M. (2010). Managing Your Money: Understanding math operations involving decimals and integers. Rosen Publishing Group.

Decimals: Addition & Subtraction Number Sense Textbook Ages: 8-10 years The Number Sense series is intended for students to build a strong foundation of different math operations, and in this case adding and subtracting decimals. This textbook can be used within the classroom to provide students with additional practice in order to master the skills necessary to perform each operation. Sometimes new text material can help as a student as it gives them a different perspective. Suter, A. D. (2003). Decimals: Addition and subtraction. McGraw-Hill.

Poems This poem helps students remember the steps for dividing a decimal by a decimal Move the decimal to the end (in the divisor) Move the decimal _____ again (once, twice- in the dividend) Pop the decimal up on top Now divide, no need to stop This poem helps students remember the steps for dividing a decimal by a whole number No decimal in the divisor What will you do? Pop it in the quotient Divide and you are through This poem helps students remember the steps for multiplying decimals. Multiplying decimals is easy to do. Multiply first and when you're through Count the decimal places up on top Match it in the answer, then you can stop. Kennedy, V. (2013). Decimal Poems. Kingston Elementary School. Students are usually more intrigued by something that rhymes. It gives them a better chance of actually remembering something because it has a notable pattern. These three poems provide students with the opportunity to help them remember how to multiply and divide factions which is essential to know in the unit. As students go through the process of performing either of the two operations, they can recite the poem in their head if they seem to get stuck on a particular problem. - These poems are most appropriate for students at the middle school level as this is usually when they are first exposed to decimal operations.

Math For Smarty Pants Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and up Math for Smarty Pants has a variety of math “stories.” I noted a particular story (pg. 15) that relates to adding decimals. This section described how each letter of someone’s name represented a cent value. This selection allows students to practice adding the cent value of their own name. This type of activity gives students the opportunity to perform a different activity than usual that is still relative to the material yet very engaging. Burns, M. (1982). Math for Smarty Pants. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Pigs will be Pigs Fun with Math and Money Grades: 3-5 (sometimes 6 th ) This book explains how the family of pigs are looking for money in order to go out to dinner. Once they finally find enough to go out they eventually determine how much they have left after leaving the restaurant. Students will be able to apply their knowledge using the addition and subtraction of decimals to the story told within the book. This would be a good book to read after the material has been taught, or even during, to make the material more relatable. Axelrod, A. (1994). Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with math and money. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Menus Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. Students at the middle school level have already been exposed to numerous restaurant menus or other forms of price listings. As children get older they will need to start practicing their habits of adding or subtracting decimals, and sometimes even multiplying or dividing, as they total their purchases. When people purchase items in a store they must add up each item to ensure they have enough money. Menus are one of the many examples to show students how decimal operations can be used in everyday practices.

Advertisements Middle School students should know exactly what advertisements look like. Advertisements are used to show when items are on sale. Percentages are taken off to determine the sale price. Essentially, percentages are decimals in disguise. In this case, multiplication using decimals can be used to determine the new price. This is just another example how students can apply decimal operations to life situations. Students at the upper middle school level should begin to practice discount/sale problems in order to prepare them for the near future. Those students at the sixth grade level should still be exposed to the material, but may struggle a great amount when trying to grasp the concept. Food Lion, LLC and Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation