Number & Operations for Teachers 

    Copyright David & Cynthia Thomas, 2009

Chapter/Section

Chapter Six: Decimals & Percents: Operations & Connections

6.4 Terminating and Repeating Decimals

Objective

Understand the relationship between fractions and decimals.

Overview

An important relationship between the fraction and decimal representations of equivalent numbers is that every fraction p/q is equivalent to a terminating or repeating decimal.  This section discusses this relationship and explains how to convert one form to another.

Readings

Terminating and repeating decimals

Homework

Exercises

Links

 N/A