Thursday, 23 July 2015

Decimals

Non-fiction books are arranged on the shelves numerically.

The books are given a decimal number according to their subject.

Try putting these numbers in order.

1.001 2.362 3.500 4.593.9

5.610 6.629 .7.37.5 8.745.5

9.808.8 10.994

Look through the non-fiction shelves in the library. What subjects do you find at these numbers.

004-Computer Science

796.3-Athletics

500-Science Mathematics

821-English poetry

993.1- New Zealand history

At what Dewey Decimal number would you find the following subjects:

Myths and Legends? 753

Fashion? 687

Inventions? 608

Birds? 598

Fairy tales? 398.21

Mishaan