Access full lesson containing this video at: http://www.yourteacher.com/prealgebra/comparingdecimals.php Students learn to compare decimals by first lining up the decimals, then comparing numbers place-by-place, starting on the left. For example, to compare 17.456 and 17.501, the 1s in the tens place are the same, and the 7s in the units place are the same. However, in the tenths place, Less