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Wishball challenge: tenths

Learning objects Wishball challenge: tenths

TLF ID L872

Test your understanding of decimal place value with numbers that include tenths. Receive a starting number, such as 128.9, and work towards turning it into a target number, such as 845.6. Spin a random digit, choose its decimal place value and use the given operation (either addition or subtraction) on your starting number. Be careful not to overshoot the target! You can use a 'Wishball' to help you reach the target number. Try to achieve the target with as few additions or subtractions as possible. This learning object is one in a series of ten objects.

Tags: Decimals Tenths
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Educational details

Key learning objectives
  • Students identify the place value of each digit in a four-digit whole number and the relative value of a given digit in different places within a four-digit whole number.
  • Students add and subtract tenths, ones, tens and hundreds.
  • Students read and interpret various representational forms.
  • Students compare decimal fractions, including those greater than 1.
Year level

5; 6

TopicsAccuracy and precision; Addition; Number operations; Counting; Decimals; Funding formulas; National socialism; Number lines; Place value; Random numbers
Learning area
  • mathematics
Strand
  • Mathematics/Number and algebra
    Concept
    • Mathematics/Number lines
    • Mathematics/Place value
    • Mathematics/Subtraction
    • Mathematics/Addition
    • Mathematics/Decimal fractions
    • Mathematics/Arithmetic
    • Mathematics/Counting
    Skill
    • Knowledge;
    • Comprehension;
    • Application
    Student activity
    • Interactives;
    • Experiment;
    • Analysis
    Learning design
    • Experiential learning;
    • Independent learning;
    • Problem solving;
    • Visual learning

    Other details

    Contributors
    • Technical implementer
    • Script writer
    • Name: Michael Wagner
    • Organisation: Godwin + Wagner
    • Address: Box Hill South VIC Australia
    • Subject matter expert
    • Name: John Flatt
    • Address: Geelong VIC Australia
    • Publisher
    • Date of contribution: 20 Sep 2013
    • Organisation: Education Services Australia
    • Address: Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
    • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
    Access profile
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    • Device independence
    • Hearing independence
    Learning resource type
    • Interactive Resource
    Browsers
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer - minimum version: 8.0 (MS-Windows) - maximum version: 9.0 (MS-Windows)
    • Firefox - minimum version: (MS-Windows)
    • Safari - minimum version: 5.1 (MacOS)
    Operating systems
    • MacOS - minimum version: 10.6
    • MS-Windows - minimum version: XP - maximum version: 7
    Rights
    • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2013, except where indicated under Acknowledgements.

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