Read and write numbers with up to 3 decimal places | Maths

Starter quiz

There are {{__}} centimetres in one metre.
- '100' ✓
0.01 is __________of 1
- one tenth the size
- one hundredth the size ✓
- one hundred times the size
- ten times the size
If I make a number ten times smaller, then I make that number ten times smaller again, this is the equivalent of:
- Dividing by 100 ✓
- Dividing by 20
- Subtracting 20
- Subtracting 100
One tenth is __________ one hundredth.
- 10 times bigger than ✓
- 10 times smaller than
- One tenth the size of
- One hundred time bigger than
0.47 can be described as:
- 47 tenths
- 47 hundredths ✓
- 4 tenths and 7 hundredths ✓
- 47 decimals
Write 97 hundredths as a decimal number.
- '0.97 ' ✓

There are ___ millimetres in one metre.
- 10
- 100
- 1,000 ✓
1 mm written as a decimal number is ______ m
- '0.001' ✓
0.001 is __________ 1
- one tenth the size of
- one hundredth the size of
- one thousandth the size of ✓
- one thousand times bigger than
0.001 is __________ 0.1
- one tenth the size of
- one hundredth the size of ✓
- one thousandth the size of
- one thousand times bigger than
If the long blue bar represents one metre, how many metres does this image represent? ______ m
- '0.026' ✓
86 cm is equivalent to:
- 0.86 m ✓
- 806 mm
- 860 mm ✓
- 8.6 m
- 0.860 m ✓

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Pupils record numbers like 29 thousandths incorrectly as 0.0029

Continue to link representations of thousandths to the place value chart and use language of ten thousandths being equal to one hundredth.

Thousandth - One thousandth is one part in one thousand equal parts.
One thousandth the size - When a whole is divided into one thousand equal parts, we can say one of those parts is one thousandth the size of the whole.
Thousandths column - The thousandths column places the number of thousandths a given number has.
Millimetre - A millimetre is a measure of length that can be abbreviated as mm.