Terminating or not
Is there a quick way to work out whether a fraction terminates or recurs when you write it as a decimal?
Is there a quick way to work out whether a fraction terminates or recurs when you write it as a decimal?
Use two dice to generate two numbers with one decimal place. What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?
What happens when you round these numbers to the nearest whole number?
Take turns to place a decimal number on the spiral. Can you get three consecutive numbers?
Can you work as a team to make doughnuts by matching these fractions, decimals and percentages?
Try to solve this very difficult problem and then study our two suggested solutions. How would you use your knowledge to try to solve variants on the original problem?
Find the product of the numbers on the routes from A to B. Which route has the smallest product? Which the largest?