AC9M8N03 • Year 8 Maths

Terminating and recurring decimals, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9M8N03)

recognise situations, including financial contexts, that use integers; locate and represent integers on a number line and as coordinates on the Cartesian plane

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  • recognise terminating and recurring decimals, using digital tools as appropriate
  • Example: identifying when a fraction has a terminating decimal expansion from the prime factorisation of its denominator; for example, \frac7{24}\;=\;0.291\overset\_6 does not have a…
  • Common trap: identifying terminating, recurring and non-terminating decimals and choosing their appropriate representations such as \frac13 is represented as 0.\overset\_3