Decimal Place Value
5th Grade•45 minutes•CCSS 5.NBT.A.1
Learning Objective
I can explain how the value of a digit changes when it moves to a different place in a decimal number.
Key Concepts
The rightmost space is the ones place, and moving one space to the left makes it the tens place.
When moving from hundreds to tens, you divide by ten, and when moving from tens to ones, you divide by ten.
To the right of the decimal are the tenths, hundredths, and thousandths places.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 10 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. In the number 45.67, what place value does the digit 7 represent?
2. Explain how the value of the digit 5 changes between the numbers 500 and 0.05.
3. Write the number 3/1000 as a decimal.
...and 7 more questions
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