Year 4 Tenths as Decimals

Decimals reasoning

Includes: Support mat divide 1 digit number by 10 decimals as tenths - Foundation , core and higher tenths on a place value chart - Foundation , core and higher with extra 7 reasoning sheets Model making, drawing and writing decimal numbers, showing that the decimal point is used to separate whole numbers from decimals. 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. Children may forget to include the decimal point. If the number of tenths reaches 10, children may call this “zero point ten” and write 0.10 rather than exchanging for 1 one. Children may confuse the words “tens” and “tenths”. Questions to help with understaning the topic: If a whole is divided into 10 equal parts, what is the value of each part? How can you represent the decimal How are decimals like fractions? using a model? How can you convert between tenths as fractions and tenths as decimals? How is 1/10 like 0.1? How is it different?