When you compare, you look for similarities and differences in an object or value.

The value of a digit in a number based on where it is placed is known as place value.

You can order numbers by putting them in a place based on a set rule.

Compare and order numbers with up to 3 decimal places

Maths

In this unit pupils will use their knowledge of decimal place value to convert between and compare metres and centimetres explaining that different lengths can be composed additively and multiplicatively.  In the future unit pupils will explain represent and compare whole pounds and pence.  They will convert quantities of money between pounds and pence and find change. 

In the prior unit pupils identified hundredths as part of a whole and described and represented hundredths as a decimal fraction. They compared and ordered decimal numbers with hundredths. In this unit pupils will use their knowledge of decimal place value to convert between and compare metres and centimetres explaining that different lengths can be composed additively and multiplicatively.

Use knowledge of decimals to solve problems in different contexts: length

3.756 is composed of 3 ones and how many additional thousandths?

When you look for similarities and differences in an object 

The value of a digit in a number based on where it is placed

Putting numbers in a place based on a set rule. 

Match the keywords with the correct definitions.

Select all the statements that are true.  

Write the missing symbol to compare these numbers: 4.376 {{ }} 5.2 

Order the following lengths from largest to smallest: 

Which of the following pairs of number sentences could be completed by using the > inequality symbol? 

Order these place values from largest to smallest.

Match the symbol to its correct definition.

How many tenths are there altogether in 8.7?

What is the total value of the counters? 

4.375 is composed of how many thousandths? 

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Compare and order numbers with up to 3 decimal places

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.