6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

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Numeration IV

Decimals to Hundredths

whole number part decimal part

0.92

Read: ninety-two hundredths

hundredths

Read each decimal. Then write the place of the underlined

digit and its value.

1. 0.8 2. 0.02 3. 0.13 4. 5 .6


2. 7.1 6. 0.4 5 7. 9.63 8. 10 .1


3. 42.78 10. 2 6.9 11. 3 00.09 12. 15 6.8

The value of a digit in a decimal depends on its

position, or place, in the decimal. Each place is

10 times the value of the next place to its right.

The 4 is in the ones place.

Its value is 4 ones, or 4.

The 4 in 0.4 is in the tenthsplace.

Its value is 4 tenths, or 0.4.

The 4 in 0.04 is in the hundredthsplace.

Its value is 4 hundredths, or 0.04.

To read a decimal less than 1:


 Start at the decimal point.


 Read the number as a

whole number. Then say

the name of the place.

Study this example.

37.19

Read: thirty-seven andnineteen hundredths

4 0

(^04)
0 0 0
HundredsTensOnesTenthsHundredths
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