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Decimals

What Are They?


• Decimal points are used to separate whole numbers from parts.

E.g. 1.5 = 1 whole and 5 tenths (of a whole) = 1 5/10 = 1 ½ etc


Why Are They Useful?
• 1. Money:
‘That’s four fifty three please’ means you pay £4.53 , the decimal
splits the parts and the whole. One whole pound is made up of 100
pence, so £4.53 is four whole pounds and 53 hundredths of a pound.

• 2. Maths In general:
Decimals come up everywhere, understanding them allows you to do
a lot of other kinds of maths.
What You Need to be Able to do.
• Order decimals

• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide them

• Convert them into fractions and percentages


Ordering Decimals
• To Order decimals you need to know about place values.
Ordering Decimals
• Which is bigger, 2.5 or 2.15?
The Mirror Analogy.
• The numbers after a decimal point work as though they’ve been flipped in a mirror.

• Normally as we get bigger we put 0s in front of our numbers to hold their place value:
2, 20, 2000, 2345000, 2353000000000, etc

• We do this for decimals too when they get smaller, but we put them in front of the
numbers:

• 0.2 = 2 tenths (2/10) , 0.02 = two hundredths (2/100)


0.002 = 2 thousandths (2/1000) 0.037 = 3 hundredths and 7 thousandths, or 37
thousandths (37/1000)
See how we’re holding place with zeros after the decimal point, but the numbers are
getting smaller the more zeros after the decimal point we have before the first non-
zero number.
Adding and Subtracting Decimals
• This works the same as adding and subtracting normally, we just need to keep
track of our decimal points

• E.g. 11.35 + 7.211: 11.35 e.g. 2.5 – 1.42: 2.4 510


+ 7.211 - 1. 4 2
= 18.561 = 1. 0 8

A trick we can use is to imagine as many 0s after the number as we need to,
because this will not affect the values of them, just make sure we take these out in
the final number.

e.g. if it helps, we could imagine 11.35 as 11.350 to help us line the numbers up.
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
• This works the same way as it does normally as well, with a few tricks:
Multiplying: First we need to count up the total amount of numbers after the
decimal place in the things we’re multiplying.

• E.g. 2.5 x 2.6789 has five numbers total after the decimals so we’d want 5
numbers after the decimal place in our answer (this includes 0s)
• E.g. if we had 2.5 x 2.4 we would want 2 numbers after the d.p.:
Then we go and multiply normally whilst ignoring the decimals, and we’ll put
them back in later on.

24 x 25 = 600
then put our dp in gives us 6.00, which is just 6, so 2.4 x 2.5 is 6
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
• Dividing decimals by whole numbers works the same way as it does
normally, but we have to keep track of where the point is.
• E.g.
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
• Sometimes you’ll be asked to divide numbers by decimals. Without a
calculator this can be tricky. The best way is to think of it like a
fraction. We know that fractions are just one number divided by
another number, so whenever we’re dividing, fractions are always an
option.

4
• E.g. 4 ÷ 0.5 = . Then whatever we do to the bottom we have to do
0.5
to the top.
4𝑥2 8
= =8
0.5𝑥 2 1
Converting Decimals.
• Remember place value from before, this is important here. To convert
decimals into percentages and back we need to use it:

• 0.57 is 57 hundredths. Percentage cares about how many hundredths


a thing is, so 0.57 is 57% of 1

• 0.333 is 33 hundredths and 3 thousandths. So it’s 33.3% of 1

• What would 0.687 be as a percentage of 1?


Converting Decimals.
• Converting Decimals to fractions is a bit trickier.

1 1 1
• Some you might already know, like 0.5 = , 0.33 recurring = , 0.25 =
2 3 4

• But how do we work them out? What’s 0.125 as a fraction for example?
Converting Decimals.
• Here we’re going to use place value again: 125
0.125 is 125 thousandths. As a fraction this is ,
1 1000
This simplifies to ,
8
44 11
0.44 is 44 hundredths, which is , 100
, or , 25

• How would you do 0.4 as a fraction?


How about 0.59?

• Your ability to simplify fractions can be really important here.


Decimal Questions.
• 1. what is the place value of the 3 in 0.003?

• 2. Place these numbers in size order, starting with the smallest: 0.2, 0.15, 0.26, 0.3.

• 3. In the number 7.465, what is the value of the 5?

• 4. What is 3.7 + 12.62?

• 5. What is 7 - 0.64?

• 6. How many decimal places will be in the answer 3.65 x 6.1?

• 7. What is 2.6 × 3.4?

• 8. What is 6.4 ÷ 0.2?

• 9. What is 1 ÷ 0.1?
Decimal Conversion Questions
1
• 1. (a) Write as 4 a percentage and as a decimal.

(b) Write 0.23 as a percentage and a fraction.


(c) Write 42% as a fraction. Give your answer in its simplest form.
2. (a) Write 0.15 as a percentage and as a fraction.
(b) Write 35% as a decimal and as a fraction in its simplest form.
3. (a) Work out 0.5 x £60
(b) Work out 0.25 x 20 metres.
Extension: Time to Test me.
• To show me that you’ve got this, come up with a question for me. I
might get it right, I might get it wrong on purpose. You have to tell me
why I’m right or wrong.
Further Practice:
• https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/resources/7_fractions-decimals-and-
percentages.pdf

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