Please let me know if you guys had any trouble with these. If not, today you can move on to more of 5-2. Read through the first half of pg. 243 as a class. You'll be learning how to turn a decimal into a fraction. Check back here once you've read through the first example (example 4).
In order to change a decimal to a fraction, you must first think back to when you learned about place value and be able to say what a decimal is correctly. Here is a place value chart from mathtutorvista.com to remind you:
Let's do the first Quick Check together.
1) 1.75 --- We would call this "one and seventy-five hundredths"
Now we write the number out as a fraction using the fraction we just said:
1 75/100 (sorry, I can't write fractions the normal way here on the blog)
--- Since 75/100 is not in simplest form, simplify. Our new number is:
1 3/4 (One and three fourths)
Here's another example:
Rewrite .6 as a fraction.
--- We would read .6 as "six tenths" - which gives us the fraction 6/10. Now simplify. We can write our
fraction as 3/5.
We aren't going to move on to repeating decimals until tomorrow. For today, practice what you've just learned. Complete pg. 244, 16 - 27.
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