Learning Target:Students will learn how to read

and write decimals.

You owed me $1

-What if you only had dollars. How many would you give me to equal $1?

-What if you only had dimes. How many would you give me to equal $1?

-What if you only had pennies. How many would you give me to equal $1?

You would give me:1 dollar = $1

10 dimes = $1100 pennies = $1

Comparison between money and place values

1 Dollar (1.00) = 1 one1 Dime (0.10) = 1 tenths

1 Penny ( 0.01) = 1 hundredths

(nickel = 0.05, quarter = 0.25)

Copy and complete the statement.( use the idea of money)

500 hundredths = ____ tenths

4 ones and 9 tenths = ____ tenths

Copy and complete the statement.Answers:

500 hundredths = 50 tenths

4 ones and 9 tenths = 49 tenths

A decimal is a number that is written using the base-ten place-

value system. Each place value is ten times the

place value to its right.

Place value chart in text book on pg. 120.

Writing Decimals:Word form to decimal form

Reading Decimals:Decimal form to words form

Expanded Form:Braking down decimals into parts

Write twenty-five and seven hundred-thousandths as a decimal.

( “and” indicates the decimal point)

___ ___ . ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

I put my place values done first

___ ___ . ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

Then fill in the numbers

_2_ _5_ . _0_ _0_ _0_ _0_ _7_

Write thirty and fifteen hundredths as a decimal.

___ ___ . ___ ___

_3_ _0_ . _1_ _5_

Write 5.029 in words.

( You read a decimal according to the last place value.)

5.029 What’s the last place value?

Thousandths

Five and twenty-nine thousandths

Write 76.25 in words.

Seventy-six and twenty-five hundredths

Expanded Form:

5.392 = 5.0 + 0.3 + 0.09 + 0.002

Copy and complete the expanded form of the decimal.

0.1472 = 0.1 + 0.04 + ___ + ___

Answer:

0.1472 = 0.1 + 0.04 + _0.007_ + _0.0002_

Can you read and write decimals?