A Year 5 homework on thousandths, three pages plus answers. A note for parents and carers opens it, with 0.348 worked on a place value chart. Pupils fill in a chart for 0.509 and 62/1000, then turn fractions such as 409/1000 and 2 15/1000 into decimals and back. They divide 8 by 10, 100 and 1,000, place five decimals on a line from 0 to 0.1, and decide whether 0.04 or 39/1000 is greater. It follows England National Curriculum fractions and decimals.
Number - fractions (including decimals and percentages)
“Recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents”
Question 12 links 4/10 to 40/100 and 400/1000, and Question 20 needs 0.04 rewritten as 40 thousandths.
Number - fractions (including decimals and percentages)
“Read and write decimal numbers as fractions [for example, 0.71 = 71/100]”
Questions 8 to 11 ask for 0.71, 0.009, 0.056 and 0.382 as fractions.
Number - multiplication and division
“Multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000”
Section 2 divides 8, 45, 306 and 92 by 10, 100 or 1,000.
A worked chart showing 0.348 as 3 tenths, 4 hundredths and 8 thousandths, then a three-row table to complete.
Six thousandths fractions to write as decimals, four decimals to write as fractions, and two chains linking 4/10 and 700/1000 to hundredths and thousandths.
Six divisions, from 8 ÷ 10 to 306 ÷ 1,000.
Pupils draw arrows to 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.08 and 0.095 on a line marked in hundredths and half-hundredths. Then they decide whether Amir or Maya is right about 0.04 and 39/1000.
Every answer, with each number line position given by its tick mark.
After the first lesson
Send it home once thousandths have been introduced. The parent note and worked chart let an adult help without knowing your method.
Placeholder check
Questions 2, 5 and 6 (7/1000, 80/1000 and 3/1000) catch pupils who leave out the zeros. Go over these first when the sheets come back.
Class vote
Read Amir's and Maya's claims aloud and take a vote before anyone writes. Then have pupils rewrite 0.04 as thousandths to check.
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