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Decimals as one tenth of a number

By Kim Ferguson, in Year 3 - Thursday, 13 June 2024

In our maths lessons, year 3 have been looking at decimals as one tenth of a number. We worked in pairs with cuisenaire rods to find the whole part which was made of 10 tenths. We all had different sized rods from each other. After comparing two of the rods we cailrified that both are tenths but that the red tenth was smaller than the green tenth. We found out that the larger the tenth, the larger the whole.