Comparing numbers and decimals · sheet 24 of 30
Answer key
The answer, and what a wrong answer means.
| # | Problem | Answer | If they wrote… |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 793 ○ 683 | > | no pattern to catch here |
| 2 | 572 ○ 595 | < | no pattern to catch here |
| 3 | 0.9 ○ 0.69 | > | < the longer decimal is bigger |
| 4 | 348 ○ 722 | < | > comparing numbers by the ones digit first |
| 5 | 378 ○ 621 | < | > comparing numbers by the ones digit first |
| 6 | 305 ○ 301 | > | no pattern to catch here |
| 7 | 398 ○ 351 | > | no pattern to catch here |
| 8 | 0.2 ○ 0.13 | > | < the longer decimal is bigger |
| 9 | 0.94 ○ 0.8 | > | < the shorter decimal is bigger |
| 10 | 0.86 ○ 0.88 | < | no pattern to catch here |
| 11 | 521 ○ 523 | < | no pattern to catch here |
| 12 | 0.8 ○ 0.83 | < | > the shorter decimal is bigger |
| 13 | 365 ○ 445 | < | no pattern to catch here |
| 14 | 919 ○ 869 | > | no pattern to catch here |
| 15 | 297 ○ 225 | > | no pattern to catch here |
| 16 | 0.27 ○ 0.35 | < | no pattern to catch here |
| 17 | 0.90 ○ 0.9 | = | < the shorter decimal is bigger> the longer decimal is bigger |
| 18 | 0.8 ○ 0.80 | = | < the longer decimal is bigger> the shorter decimal is bigger |
| 19 | 349 ○ 498 | < | > comparing numbers by the ones digit first |
| 20 | 291 ○ 159 | > | < comparing numbers by the ones digit first |
Reading the wrong answers
One wrong answer is a slip. The same pattern on three or more problems is a rule your child is following, and it has a name and a fix. Problems marked "no pattern to catch" are the plain ones; a child who gets only those right is telling you something too.