About this worksheet
Decimal place value to thousandths extends the base-ten pattern to digits smaller than one asks fifth graders to coordinate notation, calculation, and reasoning instead of applying a memorized step in isolation. Students often read 0.407 as four hundred seven or compare decimals by length instead of by tenths, hundredths, and thousandths. This worksheet rotates through short self-checking items so students practice the named skill from several angles. Students identify digit values, compare decimals, write expanded decimal form, round to a named place, and use number lines to reason about size. Support versions keep numbers friendlier while preserving the same reasoning. Standard and challenge versions add closer choices, less familiar values, or an extra comparison step. Encourage your child to name the operation, place value, unit, or property before calculating. If an answer is close but uses the wrong place, denominator, operation order, or unit, it is the trap.
What your child will learn
- Identify tenths, hundredths, and thousandths
- Compare decimal values
- Write expanded decimal form
- Round decimals
Worked example
In 3.482, the 8 is in the hundredths place, so its value is 0.08.
Common mistake
Treating the longer decimal as larger without comparing place values from left to right.
Helpful hint
Line up the decimal points and compare one place at a time.
Worksheet 1