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This document discusses how to explain decimal numbers to primary school teachers. It recommends using base-ten blocks to represent units, with long blocks as tenths and small cubes as hundredths. For example, the blocks in Figure 2.3 represent the decimal number 3.66. The document also notes that children first encounter the decimal point in the context of money (pounds and pence) and length (meters and centimeters), where it separates whole from fractional units without requiring an understanding of tenth

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Trevor Riley

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