Mathematics for Construction Trades: Converting Fractions into Decimals

This Mathematics for Construction Trades lesson, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, introduces students to converting fractions into decimals. In this lesson, students will convert fractions and mixed numbers into decimals, and then to feet and inches using a conversion table. Included in the lesson is an inches to decimals of a foot conversion chart document and a C2L Math Lesson document. The C2L website provides links to additional teaching resources, including math problems from a chapter in the textbook "Practical Problems in Mathematics for Carpenters" by Mark Huth.