Purpose:
The purpose of this activity is to help your child to name the number ten, one, tenth, hundredth or thousandth more or less than a number.
Link to the Number Framework:
Number facts, Stage 7-8
What you need:
- Pen and paper
What to do:
Draw the chart and ask your child to write a decimal number with 3 decimal places on the top line of the chart.
Ask your child to name the decimal ten, one, one- tenth, one- hundredth or one- thousandth more than the number. Then ask them write the number in the second row.
From the new decimal number ask your child to name the decimal ten, one, one-tenth, one-hundredth or one-thousandth more than that number. Then ask them write the number in the third row.
Keep going until every digit in the original has been changed.
For example:
| 3 | 4 | . | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 3 | 5 | . | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 3 | 5 | . | 6 | 8 | 2 |
| 3 | 5 | . | 6 | 9 | 2 |
| 3 | 5 | . | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | . | 6 | 9 | 3 |
He Kupu Māori:
| decimal number | tau ā-ira |
| row (of a chart) | kapa |
| chart | tūtohi |
| one more than | kotahi te rahinga ake |
| one tenth less than | kotahi hautekau te itinga iho |