Stage 3 · Fractions & Decimals

3.6.5 Terminating and Repeating Decimals

3.6 The Four Operations with Decimals: Line Up the Decimal Point

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3.6.5 Terminating and Repeating Decimals

Core idea

Some divisions end cleanly as terminating decimals, others have digits that repeat forever, marked with a dot like 0.3̇.

Module goal. Master the methods for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, understand why the point moves where it does, and learn to round and handle repeating cases.
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