Use knowledge of decimal place value to convert between and compare metres and centimetres | Maths

Starter quiz

What is the name of the missing place value column? Give your answer as a word.
- 'hundredths' ✓
Look at the sequence. Write the missing number as a decimal. 0.27, 0.28, 0.29, ______, 0.31, 0.32
- '0.3' ✓
One metre is equivalent to:
- 100 cm ✓
- 20 lots of 10 cm
- 100 lots of 1 cm ✓
- 10 cm
- 100 mm
0.63 can be described as:
- 63 tenths
- 63 hundredths ✓
- 6 tenths and 3 hundredths ✓
- 63 decimals
Which of these representations does not represent 0.42?
Write this representation as a decimal number.
- '2.53' ✓

There are ______ centimetres in 1 metre.
- '100' ✓
What is 3 hundredths of a metre written as a decimal number?
- 300 m
- 0.3 m
- 0.03 m ✓
Write 27 hundredths of a metre as a decimal number: ______ metres
- '0.27' ✓
If one green bar represents one metre, how many centimetres are shown in the picture.
- 3 cm
- 30 cm
- 300 cm ✓
- 3000 cm
Tick the values that are greater than 340 cm. Check the units carefully.
- 3 m 4 cm
- 0.34 m
- 34 m ✓
- 430 cm ✓
- 4.03 m ✓
Tick the descriptions that match this image.
- 2 m 5 cm ✓
- 205 m
- 205 cm ✓
- 250 cm
- 2.05 m ✓

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Pupils may write for example 3 cm as 0.3 m.

Make connections between the headings in the place value chart and images that represent metres, tenths of metres and centimetres.