Decimals: Reading and Writing Mastery

The video tutorial explains how to represent numbers by breaking them into place values and products, a method familiar to students. It introduces decimals into this process, showing how to expand numbers with decimal points into their place values. The tutorial also covers expanding larger numbers and understanding decimals as fractions. Finally, it demonstrates using place value charts to simplify numbers already in expanded form.

What does the number 2 represent in a multi-digit number?

• 0.2

• 2

• 200

• 20

What place value does the digit 5 represent if it is in the tenths place?

• 5

• 500

• 0.5

• 50

How do you write 40 in terms of place value?

• Four tens

• Four hundreds

• 0.4

• 40 ones

What is the expanded form of a number with digits 1000?

• 1 + 0 + 0 + 0

• 10 + 0 + 0 + 0

• 1000

• 1 thousand

How is the number 6 represented in expanded form?

• 60

• Six ones

• 600

• 0.6

What does the digit 8 represent in the tens place?

• 0.8

• 8

• 80

• 800

How do you express 400 in terms of place value?

• 4 ones

• 4000

• 40 tens

• Four hundreds

What is the place value of 5 in the thousands place?

• 5

• 50

• 5000

• 500

How can decimal portions be viewed in terms of fractions?

• As thousandths

• As hundredths

• As tenths

• All of the above

What is the correct placement of a decimal between ones and tenths?

• None of the above

• Between ones and tenths

• After ones

• Before ones