Monday, 1 February 2010

Maths : Decimals

We revisiting the concept of decimals being a different way of
expressing values of less than 1
We drew parallels to the use of fractions, the difference being that
we only use 1/10, 1/100, and 1/1000
We went over the use of the four operations in decimal calculations
Stressed the importance of place value and heposition of the decimal
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We worked through example sums on the whiteboard and pointed out the
use of the placeholder when calculating sums suc as 3.02 + 2.2
for practice and assessmentpurposedwe completed NHM6 Pp 51, 52

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