Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents
Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun
Chapter One
I
The Magic of
Decimals and
Percents
Decimals and percents are
everywhere. If you go
to the grocery store, you'll
find the cost of everything
expressed in decimals.
The weight of the
meat is also expressed in
decimals. And if there is
a sale on meat, it might
be expressed as a percent.
If you want to succeed
at math and really
understand the world you live
in, you have to get to know decimals
and percents.
But what are decimals? Like fractions, decimals are numbers that represent
part of a whole, but unlike fractions, decimals don't use a fraction bar.
Instead they use a decimal point. Everything to the right of the decimal
point is less than zero, and everything to the left of the decimal point is
greater than zero. One thing that makes decimals easy to work with is that,
unlike fractions, you don't have to find a common denominator to add or
subtract them.
You will use decimals and percents every day of your life. So you might as
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