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Decimals to thousandths: 5th grade math

Read, write, compare to thousandths; expanded form. A free 5th 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: read, write, compare to thousandths; expanded form.

Teach (10 min)

  • Tenths, hundredths, thousandths.
  • Each place is 10 times smaller than the one to its left.
  • 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/numsense.g5_decPlace?lesson=5-numsense-decplace-1&at=5

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. What is the value of the digit 5 in 8.675? (Write it as a decimal.)
  • 2. In 2.407, which place is the digit 7 in?
  • 3. What is the value of the digit 2 in 6.912? (Write it as a decimal.)

Question set

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

  1. What is the value of the digit 5 in 8.675? (Write it as a decimal.)
  2. In 2.407, which place is the digit 7 in?
  3. What is the value of the digit 2 in 6.912? (Write it as a decimal.)
  4. In 2.735, which place is the digit 5 in?
  5. In 4.320, which place is the digit 2 in?
  6. In 6.270, which place is the digit 7 in?
  7. 5.102 = 5 + ? + 0.002. What goes in place of the ?
  8. What is the value of the digit 9 in 4.791? (Write it as a decimal.)
  9. Which number is "one and fifty-five thousandths"?
  10. 6.503 = 6 + 0.5 + ? + 0.003. What goes in place of the ?
Answers
  1. 0.005
  2. thousandths
  3. 0.002
  4. thousandths
  5. hundredths
  6. hundredths
  7. 0.1
  8. 0.09
  9. 1.055
  10. 0

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Decimals to thousandths (5th grade)

  1. In 2.873, which place is the digit 3 in?
  2. In 8.269, which place is the digit 9 in?
  3. In 9.276, which place is the digit 7 in?
  4. In 3.682, which place is the digit 8 in?
  5. Which number is "three and thirty-six thousandths"?
  6. 8.953 = 8 + 0.9 + ? + 0.003. What goes in place of the ?
  7. Which number is "nine and ninety-four thousandths"?
  8. Which number is "seven and ninety hundredths"?
  9. 5.695 = 5 + 0.6 + ? + 0.005. What goes in place of the ?
  10. What is the value of the digit 9 in 4.796? (Write it as a decimal.)
  11. What is the value of the digit 9 in 8.194? (Write it as a decimal.)
  12. What is the value of the digit 5 in 6.845? (Write it as a decimal.)
Key
  1. thousandths
  2. thousandths
  3. hundredths
  4. hundredths
  5. 3.036
  6. 0.05
  7. 9.094
  8. 7.90
  9. 0.09
  10. 0.09
  11. 0.09
  12. 0.005

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