Grade 4 · Math · Unit 9 of 16
Decimals
Tenths, hundredths, add and subtract
What your child practises
Tenths and hundredths as decimals, linking them to fractions, placing and comparing them on number lines, and adding and subtracting decimals by lining up the decimal points.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: 4N6.1 · decimals to hundredths as parts of a whole
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
What is 9.8 − 5.7?
9.8 − 5.7 = ?
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4.1
Hint: Line up the decimal points and write both with hundredths: 9.80 − 5.70. Subtract the hundredths, then the tenths, then the ones, regrouping if you need to.
Question 2
In 3.52, what is the value of the digit 2?
3.52
- 2 tens
- 2 hundredths
- 2 ones
- 2 tenths
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2 hundredths
Hint: After the decimal point, the first place is tenths and the second place is hundredths.
Question 3
What is 1.62 + 2.97?
1.62 + 2.97 = ?
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4.59
Hint: Line up the decimal points. Write both with hundredths (1.62 and 2.97), then add the hundredths, the tenths and the ones. Estimate first: about 2 + 3.
Question 4
Write 17 hundredths as a decimal.
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0.17
Hint: Hundredths use two places after the decimal point: tenths, then hundredths.
Question 5
Which sign goes in the box?
2.09 2.9
- <
- =
- >
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<
Hint: Line up the decimal points. Write both with hundredths (2.90 and 2.09) and compare the ones, then the tenths, then the hundredths.
Question 6
Each bar is 1 whole. What decimal shows the shaded part?
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1.9
Hint: Each bar has 10 equal parts, so each part is 1 tenth (0.1). 1 full bar is 1 whole. Count the shaded tenths in the last bar: 9.