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Decimals as tenths, hundredths: 4th grade math

Decimals as fractions with denominator 10 or 100 (0.62 = 62/100); locate on a number line. A free 4th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: decimals as fractions with denominator 10 or 100 (0.62 = 62/100); locate on a number line.

Teach (10 min)

  • 0.3 is 3 tenths. 0.07 is 7 hundredths.
  • The first place after the dot is tenths, the next is hundredths.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/decimals.placeValue?lesson=4-decimals&at=4

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. Which digit is in the hundredths place of 94.95?
  • 2. Which digit is in the ones place of 51.31?
  • 3. Which digit is in the ones place of 92.03?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. Which digit is in the hundredths place of 94.95?
  2. Which digit is in the ones place of 51.31?
  3. Which digit is in the ones place of 92.03?
  4. What is the 3 worth in 25.63?
  5. Which digit is in the tenths place of 38.87?
  6. Write ninety-seven and fifty-three hundredths as a decimal
  7. Which digit is in the ones place of 16.15?
  8. What is the 5 worth in 74.50?
  9. What is the 6 worth in 47.66?
  10. What is the 3 worth in 10.63?
Answers
  1. 5
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 0.03 (or 3/100)
  5. 8
  6. 97.53
  7. 6
  8. 0.5 (or 1/2)
  9. 0.6 (or 3/5)
  10. 0.03 (or 3/100)

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Decimals as tenths, hundredths (4th grade)

  1. Which digit is in the ones place of 81.79?
  2. Write ninety-three and fourteen hundredths as a decimal
  3. Which digit is in the tenths place of 35.20?
  4. What is the 8 worth in 56.89?
  5. Which digit is in the ones place of 64.60?
  6. Write fifty-seven and sixty-two hundredths as a decimal
  7. Write thirty-eight and thirty-five hundredths as a decimal
  8. Which digit is in the hundredths place of 24.95?
  9. What is the 6 worth in 83.16?
  10. Which digit is in the hundredths place of 98.54?
  11. What is the 1 worth in 77.14?
  12. What is the 5 worth in 25.55?
Key
  1. 1
  2. 93.14
  3. 2
  4. 0.8 (or 45)
  5. 4
  6. 57.62
  7. 38.35
  8. 5
  9. 0.06 (or 350)
  10. 4
  11. 0.1 (or 110)
  12. 0.5 (or 12)

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