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The question that was asked was: Any ideas?

That was my idea - a real-world example (for the age group) of why the third decimal place is important.

Regarding your local pizzas, it was an example - it may not be valid for all situations, unfortunately, but there's no dependency.



I'm surprised you didn't write 1/8 = 0.125 to make the point clear, because 1/8 of ANYTHING is 0.125 of the whole thing.

A cut of pizza into eighths can be done visually (and probably usually is done visually) with no knowledge of decimals at all.




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