Lessons 5-8

Question 1

What are the two names for the numbers to the right of the decimal point?

Answer 1

Either “decimal numbers” or “decimal fractions.”

Question 2

What is the first place to the right of the decimal point?

Answer 2

The tenth’s place.

Question 3

What should the decimal point be read as?

Answer 3

And (e.g. 1.23 would be one and twenty-three hundredths.)

Question 4

What’s special about multiplying decimal numbers?

Answer 4

You don’t need to align the decimal points.

Question 5

If the first factor has two decimal places and the second has one, how many will the product have?

Answer 5

Three.

Question 6

What do you need to do to divide a decimal number?

Answer 6

Move the decimal point in the divisor to the right to make a whole number, and move the decimal point in the dividend the same number of times over; the quotient will be equivalent.

Question 7

What does the symbol “~” mean?

Answer 7

Pretty much the same thing as the wavy “=“ sign.

Question 8

What does evaluate mean?

Answer 8

“Find the value of.”