Help Me With Homework Please...

[phleb]

My daughter has brought home some homework, which i have no clue as to how to work out.

It tells us to write in words the value of the underlined digit...so

1. 1.3 (3 is underlined)
2. 3.5 (3 is underlined)
3. 23.1 (1 is underlined)
4. 10.2 (2 is underlined)
5. 16.2 (6 is underlined)
6. 0.9 (9 is underlined)
7. 103.41 (4 is underlined)
8. 271.6 (7 is underlined)

So if i can get to know how this works and how i work it out, that would be a great help. thank you dears.

[pixie373]

1 is three tenths
2 is three units

i assume that's what they mean. One place after decimal point- tenths, two places after- hundredths, and so on.

[Buenchico]

1. Three tenths
2. Three units
3. One tenth
4. Two tenths
5. Six units
6. 9 tenths.
7. 4 tenths
8. Seven tens

[phleb]

Please work it out for me and give me the answers someone....i cannot get my head around it.

[Buenchico]

Oops!

6 & 7 should, of course, have been written out in full:
6. Nine tenths
7. Four tenths.

[aelmpvw]

4 one fifth

[pixie373]

I agree with buenchico's

[Psybbo]

What age is your daughter as that might impinge on what answers are wanted

[phleb]

Buenchico...i hope they are right lol ;-)

[phleb]

9 years old. thanks so much buenchico, you are a star....fancy having a thick parent..poor daughter lol

[Buenchico]

Surely you remember writing 'H T U' (for hundred, tens and units) above the columns in infants school?

Anything to the LEFT of the decimal point is simply sticking to those rules. So, in Q8, the 2 is in the 'hundreds' column, the 7 is in the 'tens' column and the 1 is in the 'units' column.

Columns to the RIGHT of the decimal point follow the same patter (i.e. you divide by 10 to go from the value of one column to the value of the one to the right of it). So, in Q7, the 4 is in the 'tenths' column and the 1 is in the 'hundredths' column.

[Buenchico]

>>>i hope they are right

With 15 years experience of teaching maths, so do I!
;-)

[phleb]

Buenchico...do you do private tuition??, i think i need it. I have no maths gcse, i failed it. My maths teacher was a former cop, and he was so strict and intimidating i would just sit there and watch his every move, hence never learnt a thing....(i know my times tables though lol) thanks maths genius buen x.

[Peter Pedant]

phleb is gonna be our next Chancellor
well done BC it took me a bit to realise these were tens and unis...

it takes me back about 55 y

[sherrardk]

Phleb, if it's any consolation one of my children is achieving the average for a 13 year old in maths and she is only 8, I don't stand a chance with helping her.

[phleb]

Thanks sherrard, thats made me feel better. I truly did feel stupid, i thought 'what is my child going to think of me?' lol

Peter....me a chancellor....thats made me giggle.

[joeluke]

If you are to write in words the value of the underlined digit the surely the answers are:

1. Three
2. Three
3. One

etc, etc?

;-)

[factor-fiction]

The value of a digit has to be taken in the context of the whole number, joeluke

[factor-fiction]

I would agree with you joe if the question asked "what is the digit" but it asks for the value

[aelmpvw]

when i was at school fifty odd years ago i would have been punished for saying two tenths or four tenths ... it's one fifth or two fifths :-)

[heathfield]

These days this could be an 'A' level maths exam question!