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Decimals
Investigate 5 of the following. Record your
findings in your Math books.
1.
A decimal number has been rounded off to 6. What might the number be? Give at
least 5 answers.
2.
How many different equations can you make using the following numbers?
0.5
1.2
1.0
0.2
0.6
0.7
0.4
3.
I am thinking of some decimal numbers between 1 and 2. What might they be? Give
at least 15 answers.
4.
The difference between two numbers is 0.3. What might the two numbers be? Give
at least 5 answers.
5.
I added three decimal numbers together to make exactly 4. What might the three
numbers be? Give at least 5 answers.
6.
In a timber yard I found 15 pieces of timber, all different lengths, but all between 2.1
and 2.2 m long. How long might each piece of timber have been?
7.
When writing a sequence of numbers, I wrote down 2.57 to start and 3.61 to finish.
What might the numbers in-between be? Give at least 3 possible number patterns.
8.
Two numbers multiply together to give 14.4. What might these numbers be? Give at
least 3 answers.
9.
A decimal number has been rounded off to 4.7. What might the number be? Give at
least 5 answers.
10. In a school the difference between the tallest and the shortest teacher is 0.35 m.
What might the heights of the tallest and shortest teacher be? Give at least 5
answers.