There’s really no such number as “point three seven five.” Yet that’s how a lot of students say .375, and a big reason for this is that’s how a lot of teachers say it--including me until I realized ...

Discusses the importance of number systems, tracing their origins from early human counting methods using fingers to modern numeral systems. It explains the decimal system, place value, and how ...

Even though the digit (3) is repeated, it has a different value each time depending on what column it is in. This understanding of place value is at the heart of everything we do with numbers. Without ...