The skill taught involves understanding and identifying decimal values on a number line, particularly focusing on decimals greater than one. It explains how to determine the value of a point on the number line by counting the tenths from a whole number.
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Number lines and decimals above 1
Test your understanding of decimals above 1 on a number line by practicing it! Work through the below exercises to use it in practice.
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Let's understand how to think about decimals on the number line by reading a decimal value for this dot
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We can see that the big lines, 0 and 1, are split into 10 sections, or tenths. So each small line is 1 tenth of a whole, or zero point one.
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We can start from the whole number, 1, and begin counting small lines from there. So the first small line after the 1 is 1 point 1.
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Our dot is 4 small lines after the 1, or a decimal value of 1 point 4.