📊 Part 1: Understanding the Chart

Instructions: Look at the place value chart below. Each column has a special name and place for numbers.

Tens	Ones	•	Tenths	Hundredths	Thousandths	Ten-thousandths
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1. What symbol separates the whole numbers from the decimal parts?

Comma (,)

Decimal point (•)

Line (-)

2. Which column comes right after the decimal point?

Ones

Tenths

Hundredths

✏️ Part 2: Practice with Numbers

Instructions: Write each decimal number in the chart below. Put each digit in the correct column.

3. Write the number 25.47 in the chart:

Tens	Ones	•	Tenths	Hundredths
		•

4. Write the number 3.256 in the chart:

Ones	•	Tenths	Hundredths	Thousandths
	•

5. Write your own decimal number in the big chart at the top of the page.

Choose any decimal with at least 3 digits after the decimal point.

6. In the number 42.789, which digit is in the hundredths place?

Answer: __________

7. Write a decimal that has 5 in the tenths place and 2 in the ones place:

Answer: __________

8. Explain in your own words what the decimal point does: