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Grade 5 Math · World 4: Thousandths Dock · Level 34
Meet the Thousandths
Cut a hundredth into ten parts, and read numbers from millions to thousandths.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 34
- Zoom in on one hundredth. Cut it into 10 equal slices. Each slice is one thousandth.
- So 1 thousandth is written with two zeros holding places: 0.001. Four slices make 0.004.
- The thousandths place is the third place after the point. Here's 347.392 on a place-value chart. The 2 is worth 2 thousandths.
- Our numbers now stretch from the millions to the thousandths. Each place is 10 times the place to its right, all the way across.
Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards:
- 5.NR.1.1 — Explain that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
- 5.NR.4.1 — Read and write decimal numbers to the thousandths place using base-ten numerals written in standard form and expanded form.