Library skills Dewey decimals

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. 629.2      7. 737.5        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- Athletic and outdoor sports

500-Natural Science and 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-39

Today I learnt about decimals.We had to put the numbers smallest to biggest and we had to find what Dewey number is related to the topic.