Katie Winsett (U of A GK-12) Ashley Williams (RBMS) September 2008
Decimal Bingo Inquiry: Have students make up the call questions. Arkansas Frameworks: NO.1.6.3 Round and compare decimals to a given place value including thousandths. NO.2.7.2 Apply the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division properties of equality to onestep equations with integers, fractions and decimals. NO.3.6.2 Develop and analyze algorithms for compute with decimals and demonstrate, with and without appropriate technology, computational fluency in their use and justify the solution. Procedure: Students work in pairs and use the values on the Bingo cards (Bingo-cards.pdf) to design questions for practice with decimals. All of the cards have the same values. However, using the following values will guarantee Bingo for every card: 0.05 3.02 0.43 0.25 0.006 Develop a warm-up round with 10 questions. After the warm-up round have the pairs of students come up with 10 questions using prescribed operations: For example: 3 questions must be addition, 3 questions must be subtraction, etc. Students, then, can take turns calling until a group or groups get Bingo. Materials: Bingo cards, place-markers Hints: Print and laminate the cards so they can be reused; place-markers can then be dry erase pens. Use these as review for any number of skills: addition/subtraction and multiplication/division are obvious examples. Use the 10 questions from each pair of students to assess their understanding of the operations.