Knowledge of the metric system for linear and square measure would perhaps, as an introduction to decimal fractions, more than save the time spent to learn it.
Would it be better if they were formed early as a means of facilitating knowledge of decimal fractions?
Consequently good practice came to use United States money not as a consequence of decimal fractions, learned by their aid, but as an introduction to decimal fractions which aids the pupil to learn them.
The real meaning of the word fraction, operations in fractions, the reduction of common fractions to decimal fractions--all of this is mastered and becomes perfectly clear in the child's mind.
Illustration] [Illustration] Page 275 shows in detail the practical method of using our material to reduce common fractions to decimal fractions.
The Clavis opens with an explanation of the Hindu-Arabic notation and of decimal fractions.
Oughtred introduces an interesting, and at the same time new, feature of an abbreviated multiplication and an abbreviated division of decimal fractions.
The author was a great admirer of decimal fractions, but failed to introduce the notation which in later centuries came to be universally adopted.
I recommend to all who carry on experiments to procure similar divisions of the pound, which they will find both easy and simple in its application, with a very small knowledge of decimal fractions[54].
This can hardly be at all useful or necessary, as the barometers used in Britain are graduated in decimal fractions of the inch, but, being referred to by the Author in the text, it has been retained, and is No.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decimal fractions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
