Thursday, 1 June 2017

Leatham place value-tenths

Decimal fractions

Place value practice with tenths

We are learning to use tenths

Example: Fill in your worksheet as shown

Example: 345.6

100
10
1
3
4
5
6

Expanded number: 300 + 40 + 5 + 6/10

Exercise 1


What to do
  1. Fill in your worksheet
  2. Then expand your number

1) 34.5 (2) 8.7 (3) 2.1

4) 18.9 (5) 23.8 (6) 1.6

7) 0.5 (8) 0.2 (9) 3.9

10) 15.2 (11) 15 (12) 674

13) 102.3 (14) 1045.6 (15) 300.1

16) 89.4 (17) 0.9 (18) 0.3

19) 104.3 (20) 100.5












Question
1000
100
10
1
Expanded number
1.


3
4
5/10
30+4+5/10=34.5
2


1
8
9/10
10+8+1/9=18.9
3



0
5/10
0+5/10=0.2
4






5

100
0
2
3/10
100+0+2+3/10=102.333333
6


8
9
4/10
80+9+¼=89.25
7

100
0
4
3/10
100+0+4+3/10=
104.3
8



8
7/10
8+7/10=8.7
9


20
3
7/10
20+3+7/10=23.7
10


0
2
2/10
0+2/10=0.2
11



1
5/10
1+5/10=1.5
12
1000
000
40
5
6/10
1000+000+40+5+6/10=
1045.6
13



0
9/10
0+9/10=0.9
14

100
00
0
5/10
100+00+0+5/10.100.5
15



2
1/10
2+1/10=2.1
16



1
6/10
1+6/10=1.6
17



3
9/10
3+9/10=3.9
18


60
7
4/10
60+7+4/10
19

300
00
0
1/10
300+00+0+1/10=
300.1
20



0
3/10
0+3/10=0.3






Exercise 2


What to do:
Write the expanded numbers as a decimal fraction


Question
100
10
1
1/10
Decimal fraction
A
4

3

403.0
B

8
9

89.0
C
2
3
4
6
234.6
D
3

6

306.0
E




000.0
F

7

1
70.1
G
6



600.0
H


36
8
3.8
I
8
2
4
5
824.5
J
3

1

301.0
K
2
3
5
9
235.9




Exercise 3
Underline the tenths in each question

1)  34.6 (2) 7.8 (3) 345.9

4)  1234.6 (5) 67.9 (6) 0.012

7)  59.345 (8) 12345.8 (9) 4566.7

10)  12.89 (11) 0.897 (12) 21.21


Exercise 4
Highlight the digit in the tens place

1) 24 741 (2) 18 932 (3) 78.043

4) 567.15 (5) 4536. 407


Exercise 5

Add one tenth () to each of these numbers

1)  0.8    (2) 0.4 (3) 12.1

4) 24.5 (5) 12.7 (6) 168.5

7)  2145.4 (8) 1.0 (9) 24.0



Exercise 6

Take one tenth () from each of these numbers

1) 39.5 (2) 32.0 (3) 123.6

4) 0.88 (5) 45.5 (6) 56.0

7) 286. 1 (8) 39.0 (9) 8.1

10) 478.29










WALT identify and use tenths. This week we are learning expanding decimals and I hope you like my work. 

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Friday, 31 March 2017

Leatham bee 1

Bees - Staying Alive
Match the beginnings and ends of these sentences  (see Saving Bees on page 27)


Beginnings
Scientists have found a fungus to use to control varroa mites.
People who spray pesticides can be trained to spray safely.
We can grow flowering plants to feed bees.
Endings
to feed bees.
to use to control varroa mites.
can be trained to spray safely.


Fill in the spaces - some are tricky!
visit
visits
visited
visiting
mix
mixs
mixed
mixing
save
saves
saved
saving
notice
notices
noticed
noticing
grow
grows
grewed
      growing
encourage
encourages
encouraged
enouraging


Fill in the spaces with words from page 24
Honey bees in New Zealand and all over the world are endangered . There are fewer bees living in the  wild  and  fewer  in beekeepers’ hives. That’s a serious   problem  because we need bees to   pollinate  our crops.
For a bee, it can be hard work just staying  alive .


Thursday, 30 March 2017

Leatham Decimals



WALT -  Solve problems with whole numbers and fractions

This week we have being learning about decimals. I learned read and write decimals.