Year 4 Maths · Decimal place value
Year 4 decimals worksheet
Digits get their value from position, not from the length of a numeral. Use this sheet to connect tenths and hundredths to familiar wholes, then compare decimal amounts and combine small prices. Learners meet the common mistake of comparing decimal strings as whole numbers.
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What you'll practise
A method to use
- Locate the decimal point and name the place of each digit.
- Write a missing hundredths digit as zero when it helps compare two values.
- Compare the largest place first; keep dollar amounts and cent amounts in matching units.
See a worked example
Which is greater: 0.6 or 0.45?
- Six tenths is sixty hundredths, so write 0.6 as 0.60.
- 60 hundredths is greater than 45 hundredths: 0.6 is greater.
A mistake to watch for
More decimal digits do not automatically make a number larger. Compare place values: 0.7 is 0.70, which is greater than 0.65.
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1. Write the marked fraction of the bar as a decimal.
2. Write 7 hundredths as a decimal.
3. Which is greater: 0.8 or 0.75? Write the greater number.
4. A pencil costs $0.40 and an eraser costs $0.25. What is the total cost?
5. Write 0.6 using two decimal places.
6. Kai says 0.35 is greater than 0.5 because 35 is greater than 5. Write the greater decimal and explain.
Answer key and worked solutions
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Show all six answers and explanations
- 0.4
Four out of ten equal parts is four tenths, written 0.4.
- 0.07
Seven hundredths has 0 in the tenths place and 7 in the hundredths place: 0.07.
- 0.8
0.8 equals 0.80. Eighty hundredths is greater than seventy-five hundredths.
- $0.65
40 cents + 25 cents = 65 cents, or $0.65.
- 0.60
Six tenths equals sixty hundredths. A zero in the hundredths place does not change the value.
- 0.5
Compare hundredths: 0.5 = 0.50. Fifty hundredths is greater than thirty-five hundredths.
For parents and teachers
Say the values as tenths or hundredths rather than reading a string of digits. Connect money to hundredths of a dollar, but also discuss a non-money example so the place-value idea transfers. The linked Year 4 decimal page offers additional interactive checks when a comparison needs more practice.
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