Exploring Place Value and Decimals

This video lesson by Mr. Assad focuses on understanding place value through thousandths for grade five students. It covers the concept of decimals, explaining how to read and write them in both word and expanded forms. The lesson includes examples to illustrate the place values of tenths, hundredths, and thousandths, and provides practice problems for students to solve independently. The video emphasizes the importance of understanding the reciprocal nature of decimal place values and concludes with a call to action for students to identify mistakes in given examples.

What is the place value of the digit 7 in the number 3.79?

• Thousands

• Tenths

• Hundredths

• Ones

How do you read the number 3.79 in word form?

• Three and seventy-nine

• Three point seventy-nine

• Three point seven nine

• Three and seventy-nine hundredths

Which digit is in the thousandths place in the number 23.791?

• 2

• 7

• 9

• 1

What is the expanded form of the number 5.87?

• 5 + 0.8 + 0.07

• 5 + 0.87

• 5 + 0.80 + 0.07

• 5 + 0.8 + 0.7

In the number 19.4, what is the place value of the digit 4?

• Thousands

• Tenths

• Hundredths

• Ones

What is the value of the digit 7 in the number 63.47?

• 0.7

• 0.07

• 7

• 0.007

How do you write 13.9 in expanded form?

• 10 + 3 + 0.009

• 10 + 3 + 0.9

• 10 + 3 + 0.09

• 10 + 3 + 0.90

What is the word form of the number 0.917?

• Zero and nine hundred seventeen thousandths

• Nine hundred seventeen

• Nine hundred seventeen thousandths

• Zero point nine one seven

How many times greater is the digit in the tens place than the digit in the ones place in the number 55.72?

• 1000 times

• 100 times

• 10 times

• 1 time

What is the mistake in the word form of the number 2.21?

• It should be 'two and twenty-one hundredths'

• It should be 'two point two one'

• It should be 'two and two tenths and one hundredth'

• It should be 'two and two one'