Decimal System

When you face a number or you look at a number, imagine that your head is the decimal point.

The decimal point separates whole numbers from parts or pieces or fractions of whole numbers.

Our place value system increases by trading up to the left of the decimal point and trading down to the right of the decimal point in sets of 10.

So moving <---- LEFT starting at the decimal point, you count 10 ones, then trade them in for 1 ten,

then count 10 tens and trade them in for 1 hundred.

Then count 10 hundred and trade them in for 1 thousand, then count 10 thousand and trade them in for 1 ten-thousand...keep this pattern like in the picture below.