Decimals below 1 on a number line

Number lines and decimals below 1

Number lines and decimals below 1

Learn decimals below 1 on a number line

Teaching Transcript

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Let's understand how to think about decimals on the number line by reading a decimal value for this dot

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.

The dot is 7 small lines up from zero, so that's zero point seven as a decimal