Year 5 Decimals up to 2 decimal places core

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These worksheets display numbers with up to 2 decimal places.

 Using a hundred piece of base 10 as 1 whole, a ten piece as a tenth and a one piece as a hundredth shows children that they can exchange, for example, 10 tenths for 1 whole, or 10 hundredths for 1 tenth. A hundred square where each part represents 1 hundredth, or 0.01, can also help children to see the relationship between a hundredth, a tenth and a whole.

Children make decimal numbers using place value counters in a place value chart and read and write the numbers, as well as working out the value of each digit in the number. They also explore partitioning decimal numbers in a variety of ways.

When reading or writing a number, children may say

“one point twenty-four” instead of “one point two four”.

When there are hundredths but no tenths in a number, children may forget to include the zero placeholder in the tenths column.

You can use these questions to support your child.

How can you represent this number using a place value chart?

What is the same and what is different about a tenth and a hundredth?

What is the value of the digit