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Mathematics · Grades 3–6

Decimal place value without shortcuts · Revision card

Tenths, hundredths and thousandths are different-sized units.

Make a worksheet

Understand the idea

Align places

Tenths, hundredths and thousandths are different-sized units.

Zeros can help

Appending zeros to the right of a terminating decimal does not change its value.

Estimate first

A rough answer helps detect misplaced decimal points.

Worked examples

Which value equals 0.60?

Six tenths is the same as sixty hundredths.

0.6

Write 7 tenths plus 4 hundredths as a decimal.

0.7 + 0.04 = 0.74.

0.74

Explain without looking

  1. A learner aligns 2.7 and 0.46 by their final digits before adding. What should be aligned instead?

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