LO: to write the decimal equivalent of any number of tenths.

LO: to add and subtract decimals using the column method progressing to decimals with a different number of decimal places.

 

What is a decimal?

When do we use it?

LO

So now we know one tenth is the same as 0.1

Use your whiteboards to complete the bars below.

 

 

What does this bar show me?

Use your whiteboards to explain your thinking.

 

 

How many tenths make a whole?

 

Now, using your place value counters, represent the following tenths. 

• 6 tenths 
• 4 tenths
• 8 tenths
• 10 tenths
• 12 tenths

 

Now that we understand what a tenth is, let's explore the hundredths. 

 

If a tenth is a whole, broken into 10 pieces, what could a hundredth be?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's check our answers

 

 

 

Now, using our place value counters, how could we represent these hundredths as decimals?

 

 

Lets check

 

 

Now, using your place value boards, let's represent some fractions as decimals.