Arithmetic Grade Three
Lesson One hundred fifty-three: Fractions and Decimals
Almost certainly you've seen decimal values before. Here are a few examples
to help remind you of what they look like.
The first digit after the decimal point (that little dot or period in front
of the values shown above) is called the tenths column. We are going to
concentrate on converting fractions like 2/10 to equivalent decimal values
like .2 in this part of the lesson.
Study the following example:
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This picture illustrates the fraction value 6/10. We can re-write the
fraction 6/10 as an equivalent decimal value .6.
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