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Exploring Decimals and Tenths

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Exploring Decimals and Tenths

Complete each activity. Show your working for the distance problem.

Understanding tenths

1.Complete each count-up pattern by writing the two missing decimals: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, , , 0.6; 0.4, 0.5, , 0.7, , 0.9.
2.Write each decimal as a fraction with a denominator of 10: 0.2, 0.6 and 0.9.
3.For each pair, write the larger decimal: 0.3 or 0.8; 0.7 or 0.2; 0.5 or 0.9.
4.Arrange these decimals in order from smallest to largest: 0.4, 0.9, 0.2, 0.7, 0.1.
5.Match each decimal to its equivalent fraction.
  • 0.1
  • 0.4
  • 0.8
  • 0.6
  • 8/10
  • 1/10
  • 6/10
  • 4/10

Using decimals

6.A number line runs from 0 to 1 in steps of 0.1. Fill in the missing labels at the marked points.
00.20.50.71
7.Harper jogged 0.9 kilometres and Ivy jogged 0.6 kilometres. Who jogged farther, and how much farther did they go?
8.Decide whether each statement is true or false: 0.3 equals 3/10; 0.8 is less than 0.5; 0.2 + 0.5 equals 0.7; 0.9 is one tenth less than 1.
TrueFalse

Thousandths challenge

9.Write each amount of thousandths as a decimal: seven thousandths; thirty-two thousandths; one hundred and forty thousandths.
10.Put these decimals in order from smallest to largest: 0.085, 0.250, 0.035, 0.105.
11.Explain how the value of one tenth compares with the value of one thousandth.

2 printable pages

  • Exploring Decimals and Tenths, page 1 of 2: Understanding tenths

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  • Exploring Decimals and Tenths, page 2 of 2: Using decimals, Thousandths challenge

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