Place Value Lesson Decimals

All About Place Value

Mrs. Curtis 5th Grade

Learning Objective

• The student, given a decimal through thousandths, will round to the nearest whole number, tenth, or hundredth.

Place Value, Why do we Need to Understand it?

Place value knowledge helps us understand numbers and leads us into a better understanding of digits and their value.

Open Ended

What do you remember about place value?

Multiple Choice

The meteorologist is predicting that it will snow 1.524 inches

tonight. Round his prediction to the nearest tenth.

• 1.52

• 1.53

• 1.5

• 1.6

Multiple Select

Identify the numbers that would round to 85.7 if rounded to the nearest tenth.

• 85.652

• 85.763

• 85.671

• 85.715

Multiple Select

Which numbers would round to 2.78 when rounded to the nearest hundredth?

• 2.708

• 2.734

• 2.781

• 2.776

• 2.785

Multiple Choice

Which digit is in the thousandths place in this number?

4.762

• 7

• 4

• 6

• 2

• .

Multiple Choice

What place value is the 3 in for the number 23,821?

• 300

• 3

• 3,000

• 30,000

Open Ended

Use the digits to form a number with the 1 in the thousandths place and the 6 in the tenths place.

1456

Poll

Which digit is in the tens place in the following number?

28.054

• 8

• 0

• 2

• 5

• 4

Multiple Choice

When rounded to the nearest whole number, which number will round to 865?

• 865.297

• 865.676

• 865.764

• 865.811

Multiple Select

Which numbers would round to 2.78 when rounded to the nearest hundredth.

• 2.708

• 2.734

• 2.781

• 2.776

• 2.785

Multiple Choice

What is 35.357 rounded to the nearest tenth?

• 30.0

• 35.3

• 35.4

• 40.0

Multiple Choice

Identify the number that would round to 85.7 if rounded to the nearest tenth

• 85.63

• 84.9

• 85.78

• 85.69