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20 TI-34 MultiView: A Guide For Teachers © 2007 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
them later formulate a rule about when a fraction
will be expressed as a terminating or repeating
decimal.
7. These fractions will be represented as a repeating
decimal number.
8, 9, 10. Students will identify terminating and
repeating decimals from their tables. Guide them
to see that if the prime factorization of the
denominator of the fractions, when in simplest
form, have only factors of 2 and/or 5, then the
fraction will be represented as a terminating
decimal. Otherwise, the fractions will be
represented by a repeating decimal.
Next stop — fraction terminal (Continued)