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Magnifying Glass Place Value Lab

Grade 5 place value practice in a science lab. Students see that a digit is worth 10 times the place to its right and 1/10 of the place to its left.

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 5
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain that a digit is worth 10 times as much as the same digit one place to its right.
  • Students explain that a digit is worth 1/10 as much as the same digit one place to its left.
  • Students find the values of digits in whole numbers and in decimals to hundredths.

How to use

Use after reviewing place value charts to hundredths. Have students write each number in a place value chart before they answer the first section.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

5.NBT.A.1

Understand that a digit is worth ten times the place to its right and one tenth of the place to its left.

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Magnifying Glass Place Value Lab

Compare digits that are worth 10 times as much or 1/10 as much.

Digits on the lab bench

Each place is worth 10 times the place to its right. Fill in each blank.

1.
Kenji's water tank holds 6,666 milliliters.

The 6 in the thousands place is worth  . The 6 in the hundreds place is worth  .

2.
Look at 6,666 again.

The 6 in the thousands place is worth   times as much as the 6 in the hundreds place.

3.
A snail crawled 77.77 centimeters across the lab table.

The 7 in the tenths place is worth 0.7. The 7 in the hundredths place is worth  . So 0.7 is   times as much as 0.07.

4.
Amara's magnifier makes things look 10 times as long as they really are. Through the magnifier, a seed looks 50 millimeters long.

The seed is really   millimeters long.

5.
Luis looks through a lens that makes things look 1/10 as long as they really are. He looks at a leaf that is 4 centimeters long.

Through the lens, the leaf looks   centimeters long.

6.
A digit 3 is in the hundredths place, so it is worth 0.03. Then it moves one place to the left.

Now the 3 is in the tenths place. It is worth  .

7.
A box holds 2,000 paper clips. The lab uses 1/10 of them for a magnet test.

The lab uses   paper clips.

Compare the places

Choose, match, circle, and sort.

8.
Nadia measured a crystal that is 8.88 millimeters wide. How does the 8 in the tenths place compare to the 8 in the ones place?
  • A. It is worth 10 times as much.
  • B. It is worth 1/10 as much.
  • C. It is worth the same amount.
  • D. It is worth 1/100 as much.
9.
In 4.38, the 3 is worth 0.3. Which number has a 3 that is worth 10 times as much as the 3 in 4.38?
  • A. 34.8
  • B. 8.43
  • C. 0.348
  • D. 3.48
10.
Match each value to the value that is 10 times as much.
  1. 0.06
  2. 6
  3. 0.6
  4. 60
  1. A. 60
  2. B. 6
  3. C. 600
  4. D. 0.6
11.
In 520, the 2 is worth 20. Circle every number in which the 2 is worth 1/10 as much as the 2 in 520.

1421,25032.58.22.09625

12.
Compare the first digit with the second digit. Is the first digit worth 10 times as much or 1/10 as much as the second digit?
the 5 in 50 compared with the 5 in 5the 3 in 0.3 compared with the 3 in 3the 9 in 900 compared with the 9 in 90the 1 in 0.01 compared with the 1 in 0.1the 7 in 7,000 compared with the 7 in 700the 2 in 20 compared with the 2 in 200
10 times as much1/10 as much

Explain your thinking

Use place value words in your answer.

13.
Mia says the 4 in 0.45 is worth 10 times as much as the 4 in 4.5 because 0.45 has more digits. Is Mia right? Explain.

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