Keywords: Starter | Place Value

• 8th Grade Class , Waverly Jr High
• Wednesday, September 17, 2008
• "You should not use and in writing numbers. And stands for the decimal point."
• H Stockwell, Freebrough Specialist Engineering College
• Thursday, September 17, 2009
• "As a GCSE examiner I can assure you "and" does not stand for decimal point, "point" stands for decimal point."
• The Best Maths Class Ever 8cd/m2, King Alfreds Wantage
• Thursday, September 17, 2009
• "We found this starter very very easy, but it was also very fun. Its a good start for the leason ahead,most of us got all four right."
• Andrew, Vietnam
• Monday, September 13, 2010
• "Please never use 'and' for the decimal point. It's not true!!!!!
  You say three point 6 seconds. (3.6s) not three 'and' 6 seconds. That doesn't even make sense!!!!!"

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