Friday, November 21, 2008

Can you say those decimals?

Man, did we have fun today!

We started with a warm up on comparing and ordering decimals.

And then we checked our homework...

And then we played a game!

Today focused primarily on SAYING all of those numbers correctly, without hesitation.

For example, to avoid any confusion, to say the following it goes like this:

42.847 = forty-two AND eight hundred forty-seven thousandths

Note that the AND is what you would use to denote the decimal, not "point" -- I was corrected a few years ago and now I make sure to teach the AND to my kids!

I'll have you know that they did magnificently!  Have a great weekend!