Comparing numbers
Compare decimals
Compare decimal values displayed with one to three decimal places, including equal values, close pairs and changes in place value.
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Ordering decimals
Order three or four decimals from least to greatest or greatest to least. Mix tenths, hundredths and thousandths, choose the whole-number part, and print 10–16 questions.
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Compare digits from left to right. Read the requested direction, then rewrite the complete list in order. All values in a question share the same integer part.
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Compare equal place values and order decimals even when they have different numbers of displayed digits.
Worked example
Order 0.7; 0.65; 0.708 from least to greatest.
0.65; 0.7; 0.708
For comparison, think of 0.650; 0.700; 0.708. Compare hundredths after matching tenths, then thousandths after matching hundredths. More decimal digits do not automatically make a number larger.
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- Start with three tenths below one before mixing precisions.
- Use the nonzero whole-part setting after decimal comparisons are familiar. Each list still shares one integer part.
- Ask students to justify the first pair whose order they changed.
- The optional dollar symbol is a decimal-notation exercise. It can show fractions of a cent and is not a cash-payment or currency-conversion worksheet.
- The answer key preserves the original question and shows the complete ordered list underneath.
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