Grade 5 Place Value: Decimal place names (tenths, hundredths, thousandths)

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What students practice: Place names / digit values are part of reading decimals to thousandths.

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Grade 5 · Place Value

Decimal Place Names

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Set 1 · Grade 5 · Place Value

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Easy

In 8.27, which place is the digit 7 in?
Answer: hundredths
In 6.78, which place is the digit 6 in?
Answer: ones

Standard

In 5.721, which place is the digit 7 in?
Answer: tenths
In 18.937, which digit is in the ones place?
Answer: 8

Challenge

In 472.958, which digit is in the tens place?
Answer: 7
In 431.805, which place is the digit 8 in?
Answer: tenths

Where this skill fits

Next skill: Value of a digit in a decimal
All grades: Place Value worksheets, Grades 1–5

Related Common Core standards

5.NBT.A.3 — Read, write and compare decimals to thousandths.

The match is approximate (a prerequisite, extension or different context), so treat this as related practice rather than coverage of the standard. Common Core–informed practice; not a claim of official alignment.