Lesson 3 — Dollars and Decimals


Every time you deal with money, you are working with decimals. It is important to understand the meaning of decimals when shopping and spending money on entertainment so that you can determine the price of an item.


In this lesson, you will:


  • learn to work with decimals as money
  • learn to estimate money
  • estimate and round decimals to the nearest unit, tenth, and hundredth to solve everyday problems


Courtesy of ADLC

Key Terms for this lesson:

  • decimal
  • tenths
  • hundredths