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CCSS: 4.NF.C.5, 4.NF.C.6

TEKS: 4.2G 

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Fantastic Beasts

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The latest movie in the Harry Potter wizarding universe focuses on magical creatures.

This November, Harry Potter fans celebrated the arrival of the new wizarding movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The film takes place nearly 70 years before Harry’s time, in 1920s New York City. It’s based on the magical universe created by author J. K. Rowling in her seven-book Harry Potter series.

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The movie centers on a new character, Newt Scamander, a famous “magizoologist” who works at the Ministry of Magic. “Newt is documenting and collecting endangered magical beasts,” explains David Heyman, the movie’s producer. But Scamander faces challenges he wasn’t expecting when magical creatures run wild in New York.  

Solve It!

The Hungarian Horntail is the most dangerous type of dragon in the wizarding world.

In the Harry Potter series, there are 10 dragon species in all. What fraction of the total number of dragon species does the Hungarian Horntail represent? Rewrite this fraction as a decimal.

Fractions
Meaning of Fractions, Fractions and Decimals, Fraction of a Set or Whole
Number & Operations
decimal

A number that contains a decimal point. The decimal portion of a number consists of the place values to the right of the decimal point

 

Example: 8.7 is a decimal number. The decimal separates the whole number part from the decimal part. That number can be read as 8 and 7 tenths
fraction

A number that stands for part of a whole quantity. Fractions are made up of two numbers – a numerator and a denominator – divided by a horizontal line

 

Example: If one apple is cut into four equal slices, and you eat one slice, you have eaten 1/4 of the apple
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