LESSON 7 Decimal Hoppers

Math hoppers are very special creatures that live on number lines. Professor Peabody studies how they behave. In earlier lessons, he studied base-ten hoppers and big base-ten hoppers. He just found a new kind called the decimal hopper. He makes drawings of the ways the decimal hoppers move.
  1. Study the decimal hopper's moves on the three number lines below.
    • What distances does the decimal hopper move in one hop?
    • In what directions does the decimal hopper move?
  2. Study the way Professor Peabody represents the hopper's moves.
    1. How does he show where the hopper lands after each hop?
    2. What does he write above the hops? What does that tell you?
  3. Which decimal hopper in Question 1 does each of these number sentences show?
    1. 0.3 + 2 − 0.4 = 1.9
    2. 3.2 = 0.5 + 0.5 + 2 + 0.2
    3. 1.5 − 1.3 = 0.2