{"id":30433,"date":"2019-11-30T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T15:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=30433"},"modified":"2019-11-30T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T15:55:43","slug":"introducing-decimals-their-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/introducing-decimals-their-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing decimals &#038; their operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Decimals are simply fractions written using a different strategy. Instead of writing denominators all the time. Decimals tell you the denominator by their place value. Tenths mean a denominator of 10. Hundredths mean a denominator of 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This interface is designed to show decimal multiplication, but first play with it to show decimals like 0.8, 1.8, and 0.8 + 1.0. Then, use it to see how each column is equal to tenths, but each square is equal to hundredths because 0.1 x 0.1 = 0.01. (You know this because a 10% tax on a dime is one penny.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/sims\/html\/area-model-decimals\/latest\/area-model-decimals_en.html\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decimals are simply fractions written using a different strategy. Instead of writing denominators all the time. Decimals tell you the denominator by their place value. Tenths mean a denominator of 10. Hundredths mean a denominator of 100. This interface is designed to show decimal multiplication, but first play with it to show decimals like 0.8, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30434,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30433\/revisions\/30434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}