Dividing Decimals

Vocabulary

100

What is the dot used to separate the whole number part from the fractional (parts of a whole) part?

Decimal

200

What is the answer to a division problem called?

Quotient 

300

What are numbers that are easy to compute together?

Compatible Numbers

400

What is the number that is being divided or "broken up"?

Dividend

500

What is the number you are dividing by?

Divisor.

Whole Number

100

15.6 \ 3

5.2

200

18.6 \ 6

3.1

300

25.05 \ 5

5.01

400

1.44 \ 12

0.12

500

2.48 \ 4

0.62

Place Value

100

In the number 14.382, which digit is in the hundredths place?

8

200

What is the value of the 5 in the number 0.519?

5 tenths (0.5)

300

If you take the number 0.8 and multiply it by 10, what is your new number?

8 (8.0)

400

If you divide 5.0 by 10, the decimal moves one place to the left. What is the result?

0.5

500

Is 0.6 the same value as 0.60? (Yes or No)

Yes, no matter the amount of zeros at the end of a decimal, the number holds the same value.

Decimals

100

0.8 \ 0.2

4

200

1.5 \ 5

3

300

0.48 \ 6

0.8

400

0.75 \ 0.25

3

500

2.4 \ 0.08

30