Abstract
This article is intended to clarify the difficulties and errors of 4th grade students in learning the decimal system. The study begins with a summary of Gerente's study (2015) concerning the system of counts; in particular, it clarifies two features: the positional aspect and the decimal aspect of the decimal system. Next, a study of the current teaching system through textbook analysis allows the prediction of three difficulties related to difference between writing and reading numbers, understanding numerals, and using the decimal aspect to solve problem. The difficulties were clarified through a set of questions on 108 4th grade students. Student errors indicated that they still did not understand the two aspects of the decimal system.
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