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One dime is equal to 10 pennies. It takes 100 pennies to make a dollar, so each penny is equal to one-hundredth of a dollar.
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Decimals
Numbers and Number Sense
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What is a decimal?
A decimal is a part of a whole.
One dollar is equal to 10 dimes.
It takes 10 dimes to make 1 dollar,
so a dime is one-tenth of a dollar.
One dime is equal to 10 pennies.
It takes 100 pennies to make a dollar, so each penny is equal to one-hundredth of a dollar.
Practice writing these amounts of
money as decimals on a sheet of paper.
71 cents
6 cents
119 cents
215 cents
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Money is one way we
use decimals every day,
but decimals are used
for more than just
money.
Decimals can also be shown on the place value chart.
thousands hundreds tens ones tenths hundredths thousandths ten-thousandths
Everything to the
left of the decimal
point is a WHOLE
number.
Everything to the
right of the decimal
point is PART of a
whole.
thousands hundreds tens ones tenths hundredths thousandths ten-thousandths
This shows 115 (one hundred fifteen) candy-corns. Really! Count them.
thousands hundreds tens ones tenths hundredths thousandths ten-thousandths
Remember the dime? It was less than one whole. It was only a part of 1 whole dollar. 1 dime = $0.10, so we will write it in the tenths and hundredths place value positions.
thousands hundreds tens ones tenths hundredths thousandths ten-thousandths
A penny is also only a part of 1 whole dollar. 1 penny = $0.01 since it is one hundredth of a dollar we will write it in the hundredths place value position.
thousands hundreds tens ones tenths hundredths thousandths ten-thousandths
A quarter is also less than 1 whole dollar. 1 quarter = $0.25, so we will write it in the tenths and hundredths place value positions.
Remember, decimals are special fractions with certain multiples of ten in the denominator.
10 1 100 1 10 , 000 1
one tenth one thousandth one hundredth one ten-thousandth