Grade 4 • Mathematics • Decimals
DecimalS Vocabulary
- Place Value: the value of a digit in a number
- Digit: a symbol used to show a number
- Compare: tell how a number is related to another number using <, >, or =
- Expanded Form: writing a number as the sum of the values in each digit
- Equivalent: (=) having the same value
- Decimal: a number system (based on 10) with one or more digits to the right of the decimal point
- Decimal Point: a symbol that separates dollars and cents in money, and the ones place from the tenths place in decimal numbers
DecimalS Activities
- Use centimeter paper to draw decimals.
- Relate dimes to tenths and pennies to hundredths and makeup decimals using dimes and pennies.
- Use a menu to compare money.
- Roll dice to make decimal numbers and compare them.
- Write decimal numbers in expanded form.
- Write decimal numbers in word form.
- Identify decimals in a newspaper.
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