This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Victoria Valenciana Brannen teach about creating and solving single-step practical problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication of decimals.

Mic Drop Maths is a mathematics podcast for 5th graders based on the VA Standards of Learning. Each episode addresses one standard and is broken into segments including concept, real-world application, math history, literature connections, misconceptions, and more! There is music, sound effects, jokes, and student voice in each engaging and entertaining episode. 

Students learn about and practice converting between fractions, decimals and percentages. Using a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robot and a touch sensor, each group inputs a fraction of its choosing. Team members convert this same fraction into a decimal, and then a percentage via hand calculations, and double check their work using the NXT robot. Then they observe the robot moving forward and record that distance. Students learn that the distance moved is a fraction of the full distance, based on the fraction that they input, so if they input ½, the robot moves half of the original distance. From this, students work backwards to compute the full distance. Groups then compete in a game in which they are challenged to move the robot as close as possible to a target distance by inputting a fraction into the NXT bot.

Students will write equivalent percent on sticky note and place in the square.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Kathryn Turner teach about equivalent fractions, decimals, and percentages using models and real-life scenarios.

This is a google slides lesson comparing fractions, decimals, and percents.  Students will identify each value that represents the shaded part of the grid by highlighting the text.  They will select all answers that apply.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Jessica Scott teach about negative exponents for powers of ten.

Students solidify their understanding of the terms "circumference" and "rotation" through the use of LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT robotics components. They measure the circumference of robot wheels to determine how far the robot can travel during one rotation of an NXT motor. They sharpen their metric system measurement skills by precisely recording the length of a wheel's circumference in centimeters, as well as fractions of centimeters. Through this activity, students practice brainstorming ways to solve a problem when presented with a given scenario, improve their ability to measure and record lengths to different degrees of precision, and become familiar with common geometric terms (such as perimeter and rotation).

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Victoria Valenciana Brannen teach about rounding decimals to the nearest whole number, tenth, and hundredth.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Kathryn Turner teach about percentages and their equivalent fractions and decimals.