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🍕 5th grade math · Fractions & Decimals

Decimals to thousandths

Tenths, hundredths, thousandths. Each place is 10 times smaller than the one to its left.

Worked example

What is the value of the digit 6 in 2.056? (Write it as a decimal.)
Answer: 0.006
The 6 is in the thousandths place, so it is worth 6 thousandths: 0.006. Answer: 0.006.

For grown-ups: Read, write, compare to thousandths; expanded form. Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS 5.NBT.A.3
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Practices read, write, compare to thousandths; expanded form (5.NBT.A.3). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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Try three

  1. What is the value of the digit 5 in 8.675? (Write it as a decimal.)
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 0.005
    The 5 is in the thousandths place, so it is worth 5 thousandths: 0.005. Answer: 0.005.
  2. What is the value of the digit 7 in 2.407? (Write it as a decimal.)
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 0.007
    The 7 is in the thousandths place, so it is worth 7 thousandths: 0.007. Answer: 0.007.
  3. Which number is "five and eighty-nine thousandths"?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 5.089
    Thousandths go to 3 places after the point. five and eighty-nine thousandths is 5.089.

Before and after

Learn first: Compare decimals (4th)

Comes next: Round decimals (5th), Move the decimal point (5th)

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Decimals to thousandths (5th grade)

  1. In 2.873, which place is the digit 3 in?
  2. In 8.269, which place is the digit 9 in?
  3. In 9.276, which place is the digit 7 in?
  4. In 3.682, which place is the digit 8 in?
  5. Which number is "three and thirty-six thousandths"?
  6. 8.953 = 8 + 0.9 + ? + 0.003. What goes in place of the ?
  7. Which number is "nine and ninety-four thousandths"?
  8. Which number is "seven and ninety hundredths"?
  9. 5.695 = 5 + 0.6 + ? + 0.005. What goes in place of the ?
  10. What is the value of the digit 9 in 4.796? (Write it as a decimal.)
  11. What is the value of the digit 9 in 8.194? (Write it as a decimal.)
  12. What is the value of the digit 5 in 6.845? (Write it as a decimal.)

Answer key

  1. thousandths
  2. thousandths
  3. hundredths
  4. hundredths
  5. 3.036
  6. 0.05
  7. 9.094
  8. 7.90
  9. 0.09
  10. 0.09
  11. 0.09
  12. 0.005

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