real world examples of numbers with 3 decimal places
tokenadult: I'm an elementary teacherDefinitely baseball statistics for that audience. Also finishing times for sprints to thousandths of a second.Not to answer your question, but to suggest useful resources for elementary math teaching, I'll suggesthttp://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...an essential book for someone in your profession, andhttp://www.amazon.com/Vision-Elementary-Mathematics-W-Sawyer...a book with wonderful teaching tips, andhttp://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Mathematics-for-Teachers/dp...a very excellent set of exercises for any elementary mathematics teacher preparing lessons, and a great guide to the best available series of mathematics textbooks in English.You might also try asking your question on the appropriate forumhttp://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php?f=300(the forum is really for middle school math, but you could give it a try) on the Art of Problem Solving site, a generally good site for discussion of math.