This may the first time your children have heard of thousandths and the use of Base-10 blocks can be an informative way to represent thousandths (and tenths and hundredths). This is done by using a block to represent one whole unit, a flat to represent one tenth, a long to represent on...
The same rule holds true of numbers to the right of the decimal: each place value is ten times the place value to the right of it.Ten thousandths equal one hundredth, ten hundredths equal one tenth, and ten tenths equal one whole. Put the whole number together, and you get four million...
We can round decimals to the nearest wholes, tenths, hundredths, and so on.ROUNDING TO THE NEAREST WHOLESTEPS TO ROUND NUMBERS TO THE NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER Look at the number we want to round. As we are rounding the number to the nearest whole, mark the digit in the ones place. Now,...