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.