Curriculum placement
Grade 4. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Comparing decimals to hundredths
Compare decimals through hundredths
Problem types
- Order decimals with unlike places
- Compare decimals to hundredths
- Compare decimals with symbols
Builds on
- Tenths and hundredths as decimals
- Compare two-digit numbers · Earlier idea
Comparing two-digit numbers by the tens digit then the ones digit extends to decimals, where the tenths digit is compared before the hundredths.
Leads to
- Decimal place value through thousandths
- Working in scientific notation · Extend the idea
Comparing numbers in scientific notation compares the powers of ten first, then compares the decimal parts as in comparing decimals.
- Approximating roots · See it applied
Comparing the decimal approximations of two roots decides which is greater.
Related skills
- Comparing fractions with benchmarks · Related idea
Decimals are fractions with denominators of ten or one hundred. Comparing tenths and hundredths is comparing fractions.
- Money with decimals · Shared foundations
- Powers of 10 and place value · Shared foundations
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