Difficulties with decimals and using everyday knowledge to overcome them

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Most children have trouble understanding decimals - they confuse them with whole numbers or with fractions. Here are some concrete suggestions for how children can use their everyday knowledge to overcome the difficulty of realising decimals are a result of division.

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Irwin, K. C. (1999). Difficulties with decimals and using everyday knowledge to overcome them. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 2, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.18296/set.0828
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