Step 4 Objective
Understand and use decimal notation and place value.
- Examples of what pupils should
know and be able to do - Probing questions
- What if pupils find
this a barrier?
Examples of what pupils should know and be able to do
Know, for example:
- In 5.239 the digit 9 represents nine thousandths, which is written as 0.009.
- The number 5.239 in words is 'five point two three nine'.
- The fraction 5 239/1000 is read as 'five and two hundred and thirty-nine thousandths'.