Adding Decimals — All Wrong!

Part of Wordless Wednesday…

When substitute teaching 5th grade math today, I had the opportunity to incite a riot.

The students were calmed when I finally listened to their screams of, “line up the decimals.” And some of the girls stayed after class to add some adverbs to my comment of “two decimals in a number is weird.”

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