Math Antics - Decimal Place Value

What do decimal places help us count?

• Whole numbers

• Groups of 100

• Parts of things

• Numbers larger than a thousand

When you move to the left from a number place, how does the value of the new place compare to the old one?

• It is ten times smaller.

• It is ten times larger.

• It is half the size.

• It stays the same.

What is the main job of the decimal point in a number?

• To make the number look longer.

• To show that the number is a whole number.

• To separate the whole number parts from the fractional parts.

• To tell us to multiply the numbers.

What is the name of the number place that is ten times smaller than the ones place?

• The hundreds place

• The tens place

• A tenth

• A hundredth

In a fraction, what does the bottom number tell you?

• The number of parts you have.

• The total number of equal parts a whole amount is divided into.

• The number of whole items.

• The number of items left over.

If you have 1.9 apples and add one more tenth of an apple, how many whole apples do you have?

• 1.10 apples

• 1.91 apples

• 2.0 apples

• 1.0 apples

What is one hundredth?

• One tenth of a whole.

• One tenth of a tenth.

• One hundred wholes.

• Ten tenths.

What is the expanded form of the decimal number 126.53?

• 100 + 20 + 6 + 5/10 + 3/100

• 1 + 2 + 6 + 5 + 3

• 100 + 20 + 6 + 5/100 + 3/10

• 126 + 53/100