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Alex: Carlos the Centipede Needs to Buy Tennis Shoes! Lesson PlanAlex: Carlos the Centipede Needs to Buy Tennis Shoes! Lesson Plan
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Alex: Carlos the Centipede Needs to Buy Tennis Shoes!

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In this lesson, Carlos the Centipede must buy new baseball shoes. His dilemma will be how to multiply decimals (money) by multiples of 10. To add to the dilemma, Carlos' baseball team needs to buy shoes too! Students will multiply decimals by 100. Students will investigate what is happening to the decimal point each time a decimal is multiplied by a multiple of 10.

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multiples

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multiply decimals, alex, alabama learning exchange, decimal multiplication
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Grade
3rd - 8th
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Math
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For Administrator Use
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