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This year at Hoover Elementry the 5th grade Mrs.Prestons math class is learning about decimals. Why is the question? They do it because these 5th graders will always need to know how they are doing. Later on they can do it when and wherever they want.

When do these 5th graders learn about all this stuff? They begin math at the begining of the day 8:45am. Right about now in math we are learning about decimals in divison and they are also learning about factors and prime,composent and square numbers which is simple and so is decimals. First they start with factors since that's simple. If I have two numbers like... 14 and 28. Now a factor is whatever goes into a number. the factors of 14 would be 1,2,7,14. the factors of 28 would be 1,2,4,7,14,28. Prime, composent and square numbers all tie in with factors because they're numbers but also special numbers. a prime number would be 13 because nothing goes into it exept 1 and itself and there is whole bunch of prime numbers, but some people think that prime numbers are all odd numbers let say 27 is an odd number but 3 goes in to it or 99 but 11 goes into it. Now composent numbers are the exact opposite of prime. Composent numbers are like 12. There are a whole bunch of numbers that go into 12. I mean 1,2,3,4,6,12. Now square numbers are ones with odd numbers of factors like 16 it has 1,2,4,8,16 it has 5 factors and that would be a square number

These fifth graders are leaning a lot not only about factors but decimals. Decimals are not only in money. They can also be in school. In 4th grade they learned division and some about decimals in 5th grade they learned to put them together. Now dividing is not easy for a fifth grader especillay with decimals.

"Math will help me in life because we use it all the time and it will help you puchase things and pay your bills," said Gracelyn Sales.

Mrs.Prestons class know how important math is.

Allison Wolff