This term, students have used reasoning, patterns, and logic to explore, analyze, and apply mathematical ideas. Students looked at the place value of decimal numbers, compared decimals,and used various strategies (such as regrouping and the box method) to do operations with decimals (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).  Students have also been learning that fractions and decimals can be represented in parts and wholes and have been looking at the relationship between mixed numbers and improper fractions.