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Place value chart with decimals
Place value chart to the thousands with decimals to the thousandths · 1 page
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This chart adds tenths, hundredths and thousandths to the right of the ones place, with a column for the decimal point so every row lines up. The values under each heading (0.1, 0.01, 0.001) show that the pattern keeps going past the decimal point: each place is still ten times the place to its right, and one tenth of the place to its left.
The model row shows 3,027.459. Kids read the part after the decimal point by naming the last place: "four hundred fifty-nine thousandths." The Common Core standards ask 5th graders to read, write and compare decimals to thousandths (5.NBT.A.3). Line up the decimal point before comparing, and the bigger number becomes easy to spot.
Tips for using it
- Compare 0.5 and 0.45 by writing both in the chart. Lining up the decimal point shows 0.5 is bigger.
- Write money amounts in the chart: dollars to the left, dimes in tenths, pennies in hundredths.
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All printable place value chartQuestions
What are the decimal place values?
Tenths (0.1), hundredths (0.01) and thousandths (0.001). Each is one tenth of the place before it.
Why is there no oneths place?
Because the ones place is the center of the system. The places mirror around it: tens and tenths, hundreds and hundredths.