Back when I was in fifth or sixth grade and learning decimals, I was questioning why they were important. Fractions were useful. But decimals were just a useless alternative to fractions, I thought.

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We will be continuing our learning around multiplying decimals using an area model. We will be continuing our learning around multiplying decimals using an area model.

Narrator: You might go to a foreign land and look around and think, oh dear, everything is so very different. Do I have anything in common with this place? Or the people? But give it a few minutes and ...

Decimal values are parts of whole numbers, including tenths, hundredths and thousandths. You can add and subtract decimal numbers in the same way as whole numbers using place value charts. You can put ...

There’s really no such number as “point three seven five.” Yet that’s how a lot of students say .375, and a big reason for this is that’s how a lot of teachers say it--including me until I realized ...

Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 154-164 (11 pages) The ...