Lesson 4 Compare and Order Decimals

    • Let’s put some decimals in order.

Warm-up Estimation Exploration

The person in the image is 1.7 meters tall.

Estimate the wingspan of the eagle in meters.

Image of person next to eagle wingspan. Wingspan is about one and half times the height of the person.

Record an estimate that is:

too low

about right

too high

Activity 1 All in Order

  1. Order the numbers from least to greatest. Use the number line if it is helpful.

    Number line. 13 evenly spaced tick marks. First tick mark, 0. Eleventh tick mark, 1.
    1. 1.08

    2. 0.08

    3. 0.80

    4. 0.9

    5. 0.45

    6. 0.54

  2. Order the numbers from greatest to least. Use the number line if it is helpful.

    Number line. 13 evenly spaced tick marks. First tick mark, 0. Eleventh tick mark, 1.
    1. 1.25

    2. 0.95

    3. 0.4

    4. 0.09

    5. 12.05

    6. 0.25

Activity 2 400-Meter Dash in a Flash

photograph of Allyson Felix running

The table shows eight of the top runners in the Women’s 400-Meter event. Their best running times, listed here, put the runners in the world’s top 25 for this event.

The names in the table are arranged by the runners’ best time. The fastest runner is at the top.

48.37

49.3

48.7

49.26

49.07

49.28

48.83

49.05

  1. Put the times in order, from least to greatest, to match the times with the runners.

    runner

    best time (seconds)

    year achieved

    Shaunea Miller-Uibo (Bahamas)

    2019

    Sanya Richards (U.S.A.)

    2006

    Valerie Brisco-Hooks (U.S.A.)

    1984

    Chandra Cheesborough (U.S.A.)

    1984

    Tonique Williams-Darling (Bahamas)

    2004

    Allyson Felix (U.S.A.)

    2015

    Pauline Davis (Bahamas)

    1996

    Lorraine Fenton (Jamaica)

    2002

  2. How many seconds did it take Sanya Richards to run 400 meters?

  3. What is Allyson Felix’s best time?

Practice Problem

Problem 1

Order the numbers from least to greatest:

  1. 5.90

  2. 9.05

  3. 5.95

  4. 0.59

  5. 5.59