MATH LESSONS WITH FUGO

DECIMALS (Introduction)

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how you read a decimal:

Thousand, hundreds, tenths, ones (decimal point) tenths, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousand.
1,326.2975

1 is the thousand  and go from there.
Now if we have a smaller decimal,  like so.
2.5
We are going to read it as
2= ones
And
5= tenths

Pretty basic stuff.

Now I'm going to get further into detail.
Let's take the decimal
17.58

17 is a whole number, whereas the 58 is the decimal, the remaining part.     
Pretty easy, right?

17 (the whole part. Left side of the decimal point) is known as an integer. Whereas 58 (the left side of the decimal point) is called the fraction part.

Now we know how to read decimals let's practice with these three:

.6

.05

.32

.267

Look at the chart above to help read this.

.6= six tenths
.05= five hundredths
.32= thirty-two hundredths
.267= two hundred sixty-seven thousandths

Now we are going to turn these decimals into fractions. It's easy. Once you translate the decimal, it reveals a step by step process of how to make a fraction.
So six tenths.

6/10

Five hundredths
5/100

Thirty-two hundredths
32/100

Two hundred sixty-seven thousandths
267/1000

See, it's not that hard.

Practice this

Now once you're done with that I'm going to teach you rounding.

Rounding decimals is very similar to rounding other numbers. If the hundredths and thousandths places of a decimal is forty-nine or less, they are dropped and the tenths place does not change.