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5th grade
Unit 8: Lesson 2
Multiplying decimals strategies- Estimating decimal multiplication
- Estimating with multiplying decimals
- Developing strategies for multiplying decimals
- Represent decimal multiplication with grids and area models
- Understanding decimal multiplication
- Multiplying decimals using estimation
- Understand multiplying decimals
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Developing strategies for multiplying decimals
CCSS.Math:
Sal uses place value and equivalent fractions to multiply decimals.
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- what means conceptualize(13 votes)
- Conceptualize means to form a concept or idea of something.(4 votes)
- so can we think of this with money if we want to make this easier?(15 votes)
- Yes. Lots of people use decimals when talking about money because they think it's easier for them.
Other people like to use fractions. It's up to you.(6 votes)
- So if you do a problem like 5/10 x 6/10 would you after the whole problem turn it into a decimal or do you keep it as a fraction?(13 votes)
- Here in Khan Academy, when you click the place where you have to put your answer, they will tell you if they want a fraction or a decimal or any of those.
What you do in life, it's up to what's more comfortable to you.(2 votes)
- I still am a little confused... I want to dig deeper into the meaning of doing this. I want to learn why do we multiply decimals and fractions across, like we do for multiplication. I wonder why we move the decimal like we do. I am in a pile of questions...(2 votes)
- The reason we move the decimal is because we changed the decimal at first so we hack to change it back(7 votes)
- Wouldn't you do 75 hundreths x 3?(7 votes)
- No, because 75 hundredths is the answer. You're doing 0.25 x 3, so you're are basically doing 0.25 + 0.25 + 0.25.(4 votes)
- I do not understand how the strategie works i tried it but i still couldn't figure it out(4 votes)
- Let's do 5 * 0.25.
steps:
5 * 0.25 =
5 * 25 * 0.01 =
125 * 0.01 =
1.25(5 votes)
- oh no you want some help come and get it!!(5 votes)
- Yes, I want some help.(2 votes)
- what is blank=0.01=0.01(5 votes)
- what is the easiest way to multiply decimals(0 votes)
- It is mainly a personal preference. I feel that converting the decimals to fractions (like at) is the easiest way to do it. For more complex problems though, it's much easier to use the standard method . Here's a video that shows you how it's done. 4:05
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-decimals/arith-review-multiplying-decimals/v/more-intuition-on-multiplying-decimals
Hope this helps! :)(9 votes)
- I dont understand this whatsoever(3 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] So right
over here we wanna compute what three times 0.25 or
three times 25 hundredths is. And so I encourage you to pause the video and see if you can figure this out. Alright, now let's work
through this together. And in this video, we're gonna
explore multiple strategies. In the future, we're going
to show you what's called the standard strategy,
which you might use a lot, but the strategies we're
gonna look at in this video are actually very
helpful for understanding what multiplying decimals actually means, how it relates to multiplying fractions, as often the way that people, even people who have a lot of math behind them, how they actually multiply decimals. So here, three times 25 hundredths. There's a couple of
ways to think about it. One way is to say, hey,
this is the same thing as three times, and I'm just
gonna write it a different way. 25 hundredths, hundredths. If I have three times 25 of something, what is it going to be? Well, what's three times 25? Let's see. Two times 25 is 50, three times 25 is 75. So it's going to be 75,
and I'm multiplying, not just three times 25, I'm multiplying three times 25 hundredths. Instead of 25 hundredths,
I'm gonna have 75, 75 hundredths. Written out in words, this
would be 75 hundredths. How would we write that as a decimal? That is the same thing
as this, 75 hundredths. Another way to conceptualize
this, to think about what this is, is if we
were to write three times, we could write it as a fraction. We could write 25/100. This is another way of
writing 25 hundredths. These are all equivalent. What is three times 25/100? Same idea. This is going to be equal to, you could say this is 25/100
plus 25/100 plus 25/100. This is going to be 75 hundredths, which once again is 0.75. If you wanted to more formally view it as fraction multiplication,
you could view it as 3/1 times 25/100, and you multiply the numerators, you get 75, you multiply the
denominators, you get 100. Either way, in all of these situations, you're gonna get 75 hundredths. Or, another way to think about it, is hey look, this thing right over here, this 25/100, this is
the same thing as 1/4. So you could view this as three times 1/4. In fact, this is a decimal
that it's good to recognize that this is the same thing as 1/4. So you could view this as three times 1/4, or 3/4, this is a fourth right
here, 1/4 could be viewed as a fourth, so this is going to be equal to 3/4, three over four, 3/4. All of these are equivalent. If someone wanted it
written out as a decimal, you could, you might know that 3/4 can be expressed as 75 hundredths, which in general, is a good thing to know. Now let's tackle slightly
more complicated examples. Let's say we wanted to figure out, we wanted to figure out what 0.4 times zero, let me just do this in a new color, times 0.3 is going to be equal to. Pause the video and see
if you can compute this, and I'll give you a hint, see if you can express these as fractions. What we have here in
white, we could read this as four tenths, and we could write it as a fraction, as 4/10, and we're gonna multiply that by what we have over here. This is three tenths, three tenths, which we could write
as a fraction as 3/10, and so you could view this as 4/10 of 3/10 or 3/10 of 4/10, but we're
multiplying these fractions, which we've seen before in other videos. What's going to happen? Well, if we multiply
the numerator we get 12, or the numerators. We multiply the denominators, you get 100. So you get 12 hundredths. If you wanted to write that as a decimal, it would be 0.12, 12 hundredths. You might notice something
interesting here, and you'll see this more and more as you learn the standard method. 12 is four times three is 12, but now I have two digits
behind the decimal, but notice, I have one digit
behind the decimal here, one digit behind the decimal here, for a total of two digits
behind the decimal. I'm giving you a little bit of a hint about where we're going,
but the important thing for this video is to recognize that you can re-express
each of these as fractions, and then multiply the
fractions to get something expressed in terms of hundredths, and then express that as a decimal.