Grade 4

What are tenths?

tenths

The parts you get when one whole is cut into ten equal pieces.

For example

Each strip of a chocolate bar broken into ten is one of the tenths.

In Grade 4

Children divide a strip into ten equal parts and shade tenths before meeting the decimal point.

Watch out for

Children often read 0.7 as seven. It means seven tenths, which is less than one whole.

Say it at home

Split something into ten equal parts and ask how many tenths have been taken.

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