Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

Tenths and Hundredths

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The decimal pointseparates

the whole number part from

the decimal part.

This 0 means no ones.

Fraction: 
 130 

Decimal: 03

Read: three tenths

Fraction: 
 1

4

0

5


 0

Decimal: 0 45

Read: forty-five hundredths

Fraction: 
 1

5

00 

Decimal: 0 05

Read: five hundredths

Yo u can write tenths as a fraction or as a decimal.

Yo u can write hundredths as a fraction or as a decimal.

Yo u can write equivalent decimals to name the same part.

 150 
or 0.5  
 1500 
 0 or 0.50

0.5 and 0.50 name the same part.

They are equivalent decimals.

Think

105  10 5 

^1010  10050

This 0 means no tenths.

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