Reading the Weather Station: Decimals in Words and Expanded Form
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Read and write rain, snow, and wind readings to the thousandths.
Words and digits
The school weather station measures rain, snow, and wind very closely. Write each reading in digits or in words.
1.
Match each reading in words to the same number in digits.
2.
The rain gauge collected three and seventy-five thousandths inches of rain.
Rain: inches
3.
The snow on the station roof was sixty-two thousandths of a meter deep.
Snow: meter
4.
The string on the station's weather balloon is fifty and fifty thousandths meters long.
String: meters
5.
This month the rain gauge collected 4.103 inches of rain. Write 4.103 in words.
inches
Expanded form
Expanded form shows the value of each digit. Fill in the blanks or choose the answer.
6.
The wind speed was 6.358 meters per second. Write the value of each missing digit.
6.358 = 6 + 0.3 + +
7.
So far this year, the rain gauge has collected 40.072 inches of rain. In each blank, write a place value such as 1/10, 1/100, or 1/1000.
40.072 = 4 × 10 + 7 × + 2 ×
8.
The strongest wind gust today was 1 ten, 7 ones, 3 hundredths, and 9 thousandths miles per hour. Write this number in standard form.
Gust: miles per hour
9.
The snow in the yard was 0.705 meter deep. Which shows 0.705 in expanded form?
Check the weather report
The same number can be written in many forms. Check each form carefully.
10.
The rain total for the week was 3.405 inches. Sort each form: does it equal 3.405?
11.
Sofia reads the wind speed 7.03 meters per second out loud as "seven and three tenths." What should she have said?
12.
The wind gauge read 25.016 miles per hour. Write 25.016 in expanded form in two different ways: once with decimals and once with fractions like 1/10.