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Week 02 · Decimals to thousandths

Monday

Read and write thousandths
// Read, write, compare and round
⏱ about 15 min

Monday: Read and write thousandths

Chris the Coyote tips his feathered hat and joins Bennie the Bear at the garden scale.

Bennie sets a sack of acorns on the scale, and the screen says 2.375.

"That is 2.375 kilograms," says Bennie.

Chris tilts his head. "I tell stories every day, but I am not sure how to say that number."

"Every digit has a place," says Bennie. "The last digit is in the thousandths place."

"So we say two and three hundred seventy-five thousandths."

Chris grins. "That sounds like the start of a good story!"

Learn it: places to the right of the decimal point

A place value chart showing 2.375

The first place after the decimal point is tenths.

Next comes hundredths, then thousandths.

In 2.375, the 3 is 3 tenths, the 7 is 7 hundredths, and the 5 is 5 thousandths.

Learn it: say the number

Say the whole number part. Then say "and" for the decimal point.

Read the digits after the point like a whole number.

End with the name of the last place.

2.375 is two and three hundred seventy-five thousandths.

A hundred grid with 45 squares shaded

This grid shows 45 hundredths, or 0.45.

WHICH PLACE?
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
In 5.284, which place is the 8 in?
In 0.619, which place is the 9 in?
In 3.07, which place is the 7 in?
In 12.5, which place is the 5 in?
READ THE DECIMAL
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
How do you read 2.375?
How do you read 4.026?
How do you read 0.8?
How do you read 15.04?
WRITE THE DECIMAL
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Which number is six and one hundred five thousandths?
Which number is thirty-two thousandths?
Which number is nine and six tenths?
Which number is three and twenty-five hundredths?
SentenceTrue or false?
0.45 is forty-five hundredths.?
0.007 is seven tenths.?
In 1.836, the 6 is in the thousandths place.?
2.5 is two and five hundredths.?
WHY THIS EXERCISE0.007 is seven thousandths, and 2.5 is two and five tenths.
Try it
Find a food label, a ruler or a measuring cup with a decimal on it.
Write the decimal on paper.
Read it out loud the long way, like "one and twenty-five hundredths."
Ask a grown-up to check that the last place you named is right.
Draw a place value chart and write 4.062 in it.

Great reading! Tomorrow we write decimals in expanded form.