Understanding Decimal Numbers
Can you record decimal numbers in a place value chart?
In a place value chart the whole numbers are recorded from right to left beginning with the ones column. There is a units period that has a ones, tens, hundreds, a thousands period that has a ones, tens, hundreds a millions period and so on and so on.....
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Decimal numbers are recorded from left to right of the decimal; there is the tenths and the hundredths column, then the thousandths period which has a ones, tens, hundreds - a millionths period which has a ones, tens, hundreds and so on and so on....
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