Multiply by Powers of Ten Scavenger Hunt – Grades 5-6 – PRINTABLE

Description

How well do your kids understand powers of ten and exponents? This class activity is FUN and gets kids up and moving while making sense of our base ten number system!

This is a great practice or review activity for kids in 5th grade who are still working to make sense of place value and multiplying by powers of ten, or as a review for kids in 6th grade who are still struggling or need a refresher before moving on.

How the Scavenger Hunt Works:

The scavenger hunt includes 10 problems for kids to solve. To set it up, post all 10 problems in various locations around your room. Give each student a recording sheet and then you’re ready to get started!

To begin, kids can start with ANY of the problems. They solve it on their recording sheet and then have to FIND the solution somewhere around the classroom.

When they find the answer to the problem, they solve the NEXT problem in the scavenger hunt.

Eventually, they will end up back where they started and they’ll know they have completed the hunt correctly.

Skills Covered in This Scavenger Hunt:

Your students will practice several skills with this resource. This includes:

• Understanding powers of ten written with exponents
• How to mentally multiply a whole number or decimal by a power of ten
• Noticing patterns in our base ten number system

Tips for Using This in the Classroom:

• Give kids a clipboard to make it easier to record their work and answers as they move about the room
• Let kids work with partners as they make their way through the scavenger hunt
• If you have a large class, assign kids a starting problem so they’re not all bunched together at the same location
• Collect the recording sheets as an informal assessment of how your students are doing
• Use this as an end-of-unit review, end-of-the-year review or as a substitute activity (be sure to do this with your students prior to leaving it with a sub so students know how it works)

Additional Skills Practice:

This download also includes 2 additional practice worksheets to provide students with additional, independent practice with understanding powers of ten.

Use these with students who need additional support and practice, as an individual grade after the whole class activity, or to send home as homework practice.

The first page focuses on understanding powers of ten as exponents and looking for patterns when multiplying by tens. You may want to use this as a review before the scavenger hunt.

The second practice worksheet is a cut and paste page. Each multiplication equation has a value missing (sometimes a factor and sometimes a product). Students glue the missing numbers into each equation.

Because some of these questions have a missing factor, it is a great introduction to dividing by powers of ten.

Included in the Download:

• Setup and Teaching Tips
• 10 Scavenger Hunt Problem Cards (half pages)
• Scavenger Hunt Recording Page
• Understand powers of ten with exponents worksheet
• Multiply by powers of ten cut and paste worksheet
• Answer Keys for the scavenger hunt and worksheets

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I hope this provides a fun and easy way for kids to practice these important math skills!

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