converting fractions to decimals

Practicing fractions and decimals

Today the lesson portion of class focused on working through examples with both decimals and fractions. In discussion, we also previewed how to multiply fractions and reviewed area and perimeter.

Converting fractions to decimals – summary

Students in class today asked about benchmark fractions such as 1/3 and how they would convert to decimals. As they noticed, the issue is that 1 cannot be equally divided by three, so we can use a recurring (or repeating) decimal as an approximation.

Our lesson today examines how to convert fractions to decimals where the fraction does not have a denominator which is a multiple of ten. As you can guess, the step we follow is to convert that fraction first to an equivalent fraction with a denominator of ten (or a multiple of ten). From there, itContinue reading “Converting fractions to decimals”

Converting decimals to fractions

We are starting a new topic today: how to work with fractions and decimals in the same expression or equation. The core skill in this topic is being able to convert fractions to decimals and vice versa. Our lesson today focuses on converting decimals to fractions, up to the thousandth place.