Intervention
Lesson H15
Name
Using Money to Understand Decimals
1. How many dimes are equal to one dollar? 2. What fraction of a
dollar is each dime? 3. What decimal shows what
part of a dollar each dime is?
4. How many pennies are equal to one dollar?
5. What fraction of a
dollar is each penny? 6. What decimal shows what
part of a dollar each penny is? 7. Show $1.32 in the place-value chart at the right.
dollar + 3 dimes
8. $1.32 =
+
1.32 =
9. $1.32 =
1.32 =
dollars
(ones)
dimes
(tenths)
pennies
(hundredths)
dimes
(tenths)
pennies
(hundredths)
.
pennies
one +
tenths + 2 hundredths
dollar + 32 pennies
one +
hundredths
Reading decimals and money are very similar.
$1.32 is read “one dollar and thirty-two cents.”
1.32 is read “one and thirty-two hundredths.”
10. Show two dollars and sixty four cents in the chart at the right.
dollars
(ones)
11. Write two and sixty-four
hundredths with a
decimal point.
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Intervention
Lesson H15
Name
Using Money to Understand Decimals
(continued)
Write the values for the money amounts and the decimal numbers.
12. $4.62 =
4.62 =
13. $7.31 =
7.31 =
14. $1.04 =
1.04 =
15. $2.87 =
2.87 =
16. $9.16 =
9.16 =
17. $7.39 =
7.39 =
dollars +
ones +
dollars +
ones +
dollar +
one +
dollars +
ones +
dollars +
ones +
dollars +
ones +
dimes +
tenths +
pennies
hundredths
dimes +
tenths +
penny
hundredth
dimes +
tenths +
pennies
hundredths
pennies
hundredths
pennies
hundredths
pennies
hundredths
18. Write three and ninety-one hundredths with a
decimal point.
19. Write seven and twenty-six hundredths with a
decimal point.
20. Lisabeth wants to buy school supplies for $5.25. How can
she pay for them using only dollars, dimes, and pennies?
21. Reasoning Explain why the 2 in $6.27 represents tenths
of a dollar.
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