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5th grade Mrs. Prestons class has just gotten done with decimals and long divisions. Students have learned how to multiply decimals by ignoring the decimal and just multiplying the number like a ragular number. Then once you get your answer if there are two numbers after the decimal then you would put the decimal so that there are two numbers after it in your answer. In long division, students learned to divide, multiply, check, bring down. Those are the steps to solving the problem. Some students enjoyed the lessons and some were complaning.

They are currently learning fractions. They learned how to turn a decimal into a fraction. In fractions they also learned how to write a fraction down like what's more than a half and what's less than a half and what's whole. They have been drawing the fractions along with simpilfing them. They learned how to add them and subtract them too.

Mrs. Preston would have her students get chalkboards and chalk and she would write a problem on the board, then show the students the problem, and the students would solve it on their chalkboards. When Mrs. Preston told them too, they would show her their chalkboards and Mrs. Preston would say if they were right or wrong, and then Mrs. Preston would solve the problem on her board while students followed along, then they could see where they made their mistakes.