Year 4 Decimals - tenths as decimals - Higher ability worksheet
Children look at a variety of representations of tenths as decimals, up to the value of 1 whole. This leads to adding the tenths column to a place value chart for children to see how tenths fit with the rest of the number system and to understand the need for the decimal point.
Useful challenging questioning:
How are decimals like fractions? using a model?
How can you convert between tenths as fractions and tenths as decimals?
How is 2/10 like 0.2?
How is it different?