Grade 5 · Math

Add decimal hundredths

LET’S TRY ONE

What is 1.28 + 0.47?

1.75

128 hundredths + 47 hundredths = 175 hundredths, or 1.75.

Your turn!
Learning steps & teaching tips

Add decimals to hundredths with regrouping when needed.

  1. Keep ones, tenths and hundredths in their columns.
  2. Work through the example. Explain how its evidence supports the answer.
  3. Try a new question; use the explanation to check your thinking.

Try it together

Write or draw your own example with different numbers. Solve it, then ask a partner to check the method as well as the answer.

Keep ones, tenths and hundredths in their columns.