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Math 5: Comparing Decimals 31 Views
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Description:
It's time we start raisin the bar with decimals.
Transcript
- 00:01
we speak student
- 00:13
Larry and Sean are twins, but not the kind of twins who like to hold hands and frolic together while wearing matching outfits [young girl twins hugging each other]
- 00:19
They're the kind of twins who are always plotting each other's demo today is a big day in their rivalry
- 00:24
It's time to settle who's better once and for all will it be thumb wrestling a tree climbing contest nope
- 00:30
They're going to see who can eat the most rotten grapes. It's a thing in their town. Yeah [a plate of rotting grapes]
Full Transcript
- 00:34
It's an odd place so the official rotten grape judge makes a grand entrance on the back of a camel [a man sitting on the back of a camel]
- 00:40
not sure why the official rotten grape judge rides a camel like we said it's an odd place the judge proclaims the rules to the
- 00:46
contest they're about as straightforward as it gets whoever eats the most rotten grapes wins and [rules of the grape eating contest]
- 00:51
They're off larry and Sean both quickly outpace the competition
- 00:54
They're shoveling rotten grapes like they were born to do it other contestants fall by the wayside [boy vomiting after eating too many rotten grapes]
- 00:58
But larry and Sean are the most relentless rotten greape eaters the town has ever seen
- 01:02
Even the camel is impressed when the time is up both boys are sure they've won Sean has eaten
- 01:08
[twin boys looking anxious at the ressults of a contest] 1.392 pounds of rotten grapes and Larry has eaten 1.293
- 01:12
The judge stepped in to judge the results after all it is his job [judge stood beside two twins]
- 01:16
he tells the boys its time they knew how to compare decimals when the whole numbers are equal in this case both boys got at
- 01:22
Least one pound so now the decision must be made based on the numbers on the side of the decimal point [highlighted decimal point numbers]
- 01:27
The tenths place is the place just after the decimal point and whoever has the greatest number there wins Sean had 1.392
- 01:34
and Larry has 1.293
- 01:38
Since Seans 3 is greater than Larry's two that means drumroll Sean is a champion [twin holding his alarm aloft]
- 01:43
He throws his hand into the air in triumph as larry throws himself to the ground in defeat all day Sean rubs it in Larry's
- 01:50
Face but Larry does feel consoled when Sean spent all night throwing up [twin boy throwing up]
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