Decimals are Awesome! Guess what, we are learning them in Mr. Church's classroom. Decimals are a lot like fractions because they both show parts of a whole. Each number after the decimal point has a specific value. Each value represents how many you would need to make one whole. Decimals can be converted into fractions if you know know what place values are represented in the number. An example of this is the number:
0.25 = 2 tenths and 5 hundredths, or 25 hundredth.
This number in fraction form before simplifying is 25/100
After simplifying you arrive at the smallest fraction 1/4
We are going to continue to investigate more about fractions, and how to multiply, divide, add, and subtract them. This is very important because fractions share many of the same features as decimals.
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