Fractions+(Decimal+fractions+)

When teaching a Grade 6 learner about decimal fractions, first you have to explain what a decimal fraction is since they know the types of fractions and they have learnt about the proper, improper fractions and mixed numbers in Grade 5. I have found a video in youtube about the decimal fractions and found it interesting and fun for the Grade 6 learners. [] [|http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Convert-a-Fraction]

__**Defination**__ A decimal fraction is a fraction where the denominator (the bottom number) is a power of ten (such as 10, 100, 1000 etc). you can write a decimal fraction with a decimal point (and no denominator). this can make it a lot easier to do calculations like addition and multiplication on fractions. example 43/100 is a decimal and it can be shown as 0.43.

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