How Do You Compare & Order Smartboard Decimals?
A Smart Board is an integrated presentation system comprised of a computer with Smart Board software, a projector and a projection screen. Smart Boards are excellent tools for teaching mathematics because of the interactivity that the system provides and the ease that a teacher can write and erase on the screen. Smart Board decimals can be written in any program that Smart Board can integrate with, including Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. Create a Word document that has a list of decimals. A good choice might be to list the prices at a local fast food restaurant (the students can help create this list). For example, a burger (99 cents), cheeseburger ($1.49), fries ($1.49), milk shake ($2.39) and deluxe meal ($4.99). Explain to the students how decimals are compared. For decimals to the right of the decimal point, we compare starting at the tenths place and then moving to the thousandths. On the left side of the decimal point, the opposite is true: we start with the largest place (
