Unit 1: Place Value of Whole Numbers and Decimals
- In this unit students expand their previous understanding of place value to include decimal numbers.
- Powers of 10 is a fundamental aspect of the base ten system.
- Students need to know that a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to the right and 1/10 of what it represents to the its left.
- Read, write and compare decimals to the thousandths.
- Use place value to understand to round decimals to any place.