Math

Decimals

Where are decimals found?

What are they used for?

3.25 -  three and twenty-five hundredths

4.1. -  four and one tenth

8.004 --  eight and four thousandths

To compare numbers - look at the same number of decimal places to the right of the decimal, if the number before the decimal is the same.

8.02 and 8.2. --- think 8.2 as 8.20 -- that is the larger number ( 20 is greater than 2)

5.93 and 5.931--- again, add a zero to the end of 5.93---5.931 is greater

You can add as many zeroes to the end of a number and it does NOT change the value; if you add a zero within the number, it DOES change it: 5.3 equals 5.3000 but does not equal 5.0003