Decimals

Decimal places are used to represent parts of a whole in the ...

• Base 10 system

• Base 2 system

• fractional systems

• metric

Decimal places represent values that are _______ one.

• more than

• less than

• equal to

• about

In the base 10 system, the value of digits get 10 times larger as you move to the ...

• left

• right

• up

• down

What is used as a 'point of reference', or a place we always start from, in the base 10 system?

• The comma

• negative sign

• zero

• The decimal point

The decimal point acts as a separator between the left side, whole numbers, and the right side, which are...

• fractional values

• zeros

• negative numbers

• positive

The decimal point is always immediately to the right of the _____ place.

• tens

• ones

• tenths

• hundreds

In a fraction, the number of parts you have is the ...

• top number

• bottom number

• decimal number

• fractional value

Thinking back to the apple example, ten hundredths combine to make ...

• one whole

• ten

• one tenth

• one hundredth

One tenth of one hundredth is ...

• one whole

• one tenth

• one hundredth

• one thousandth

How many tenths of an apple do you need to make one whole apple?

• 1

• 10

• 100

• 1000