Good Morning Year 5! We are continuing with our work on decimals. As we know Decimals have different values when they are put into the place value chart. We can look at how many tenths a figure has, hundredths, thousandths and so on!
Remember you can convert fractions to decimals AND decimals back into fractions.
As you can see in the image below, if your decimal has a digit in the ‘tenths’ column the fraction will be /10. (Random Example: 0.4 as a fraction will be 4/10 because the digit ‘4’ is in the tenths column).
If your decimal has a digit in the ‘hundredths’ column the fraction will be /100. (Random Example: 0.03 as a fraction will be 3/100 because the digit ‘3’ would appear in the hundredths column).
Finally, if your decimal has a digit in the ‘thousandths’ column the fraction will be /1000. (Random Example: 0.006 as a fraction would be 6/1000 because the digit ‘6’ would appear in the thousandths column).
Independent Task: Your job is to practice converting between decimals and fractions. Now, whether they are fractions over 10, 100 or 1000 depends on if the digit falls into the ‘tenths’ ‘hundredths’ ‘thousandths’ column.
Draw the place value chart out and input the decimals to see where their values are. Remember the decimal point does not move!
Silver (Answer down below on the blog in FULL sentences and use key mathematical vocabulary)
Challenge: This is like a code breaker! Use the key at the bottom to identify the two different decimals. You will have to identify each symbol and then add up the entire row. Then, do the same for the second row :)
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