Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents: Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun (Magical Math)

Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents: Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun (Magical Math)

Don't Just Learn Decimals and Percents ...Master Them! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and paper and pencil. In Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents, you'll learn how to read and write decimals, how to change decimals into fractions and percents, and much more. While you play exciting games like the fast-paced Dynamite Decimal Reduction and Here's a Tip, you'll also learn to estimate percentages in your head and even figure out what tip to leave at a restaurant. And with great games like Zeros Exchange, Multiplication War, and Math Review, you'll practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing both decimals and percents-- and have fun while you're doing it! So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master! Don’t Just Learn Decimals and Percents ...Master Them! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and paper and pencil. In Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents, you’ll learn how to read and write decimals, how to change decimals into fractions and percents, and much more. While you play exciting games like the fast-paced Dynamite Decimal Reduction and Here’s a Tip, you’ll also learn to estimate percentages in your head and even figure out what tip to leave at a restaurant. And with great games like Zeros Exchange, Multiplication War, and Math Review, you’ll practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing both decimals and percents–– and have fun while you’re doing it! So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master! Don t Just Learn Decimals and Percents ...Master Them! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and paper and pencil. In Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents, you ll learn how to read and write decimals, how to change decimals into fractions and percents, and much more. While you play exciting games like the fast-paced Dynamite Decimal Reduction and Here s a Tip, you ll also learn to estimate percentages in your head and even figure out what tip to leave at a restaurant. And with great games like Zeros Exchange, Multiplication War, and Math Review, you ll practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing both decimals and percents and have fun while you re doing it! So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master! LYNETTE LONG, PhD, is the author of several children s math books, including Fabulous Fractions, Measurement Mania, Dazzling Division, and Marvelous Multiplication, all from Wiley. She has taught math and was a professor of education, specializing in mathematics education. Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun By Lynette Long John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0-471-21058-7 Chapter One I The Magic of Decimals and Percents Decimals and percents are everywhere. If you go to the grocery store, you'll find the cost of everything expressed in decimals. The weight of the meat is also expressed in decimals. And if there is a sale on meat, it might be expressed as a percent. If you want to succeed at math and really understand the world you live in, you have to get to know decimals and percents. But what are decimals? Like fractions, decimals are numbers that represent part of a whole, but unlike fractions, decimals don't use a fraction bar. Instead they use a decimal point. Everything to the right of the decimal point is less than zero, and everything to the left of the decimal point is greater than zero. One thing that makes decimals easy to work with is that, unlike fractions, you don't have to find a common denominator to add or subtract them. You will use decimals and percents every day of your life. So you might as well start practicing. Begin with the fun activities in this book and you'll soon be a master of decimals and percents. Then you can proudly display the decimals and percents master certificate at the back of this book. II The Facts on Decimals In this section, you'll learn all the basic facts about decimals. You'll learn how to read a decimal and write one, how to change a decimal to