Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Decimals again.

Ordering decimals.

Its important to understand that any figure to the right of the decimal point gets smaller and smaller

13.8 is bigger than 13.69

The 8 is eight tenths
The 69 is not a whole number 69.
You must not think that 69 is bigger than 8, because after the decimal point its smaller.
Look at the tenths figure and see that 8 is bigger than 6.
The 9 is actually 9 hundreths so .69 is smaller than .7 and so .8 is bigger than .69.

I think I 've got it now.

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