Understanding Decimals with Visual Models

What does the decimal point in a number signify?

• It is used to multiply numbers.

• It shows the number is negative.

• It indicates the end of a number.

• It separates whole numbers from fractional parts.

How are three-tenths and thirty-hundredths related?

• They are equivalent.

• They are different values.

• Three-tenths is larger.

• Thirty-hundredths is larger.

What is a creative way to represent two and three-tenths?

• As two dollars and fifty cents.

• As three dollars and twenty cents.

• As one dollar and thirty cents.

• As two dollars and thirty cents.