This holiday season, use the worksheet, Holiday Shopping: Decimal Practice 1, to help your fifth-graders add, subtract, and multiply decimals. These real-world skills will be helpful as they plan their own gift-giving this holiday.

Students will practice adding and subtracting decimals, before applying the same skills to solve two-step word problems.

Students will solve two number puzzles that will have them adding and subtracting decimals.

Assess your students’ knowledge of decimal concepts up to the hundredths place, including addition, subtraction, comparing, and ordering.

Use Election Night to teach your child about politics and government, and have them add up the electoral votes each presidential candidate earns throughout the night.