Understanding Tenths and Hundredths Place Video Lecture | Mathematics for Grade 6

hi in this video where you're going to
examine decimal places so this square
right here represents one hole now if I
were to take my one hole and divide it
into ten equal pieces it would look like
this so now I have one two three four
five six seven eight nine ten columns
and my hole has been divided into ten
equal pieces so if I were to shade one
of these ten pieces I could write that
as a fraction the amount that shaded is
1/10 I could also write it as a decimal
there are no holes shaded and I put my
decimal there is one tenth shaded so
this one behind the decimal point is in
the tenths place and that means that
this 1/10 is the same as this 1/10 which
is the same as this 1/10
let's try shading some more tenths so
now I'll go ahead and shade six tenths
so I have six out of ten pieces shaded
so I'll write that as a fraction that's
six tenths and that's the same as no
holes because I don't have any complete
squares shaded but I do have 6/10 shaded
so I put the six after my decimal point
in the tens place this decimal is read
six tenths and it's the same as this
fraction and this picture now let's say
I wanted to have even smaller pieces
suppose I wanted to divide my hole into
even smaller pieces well I could take
each of these tents and divide them into
ten equal pieces and I would have a
picture that looks like this now my hole
has been divided into a hundred little
blocks because there are ten rows and
ten columns and 10 times 10 is 100 so
let me shade some blocks here so now I
have 24 blocks shaded that is 24 out of
100 so I can read that as 24 hundredths
which I can write like this there are no
holes shaded and 24 hundredths is
written like this so my 2 is in the
tenths place and my 4 is in the
hundredths place this decimal is read 24
hundredths which is the same as this
fraction 24 hundredths which is the same
as this picture 24 hundredths notice
that in 24 hundredths I have a 2 in the
tenths place this 2 corresponds with one
to complete columns which are the same
as a complete tenth like we have up
above and then this 4 in the hundreds
place represents these 4 hundredths that
were shaded in so you can also take the
hundredths and divide them up even
smaller if we were to divide each of
these hundredths into ten little pieces
then we would have thousands and if we
were to divide each of those thousands
into ten little pieces we could have ten
thousands so the pieces can get smaller
and smaller and smaller but for right
now we're just going to stick with
tenths and hundredths because the
thousands get really small and a little
bit difficult to see