LET’S TRY ONE
What is 1.28 + 0.47?
1.75
128 hundredths + 47 hundredths = 175 hundredths, or 1.75.
Learning steps & teaching tips
Add decimals to hundredths with regrouping when needed.
- Keep ones, tenths and hundredths in their columns.
- Work through the example. Explain how its evidence supports the answer.
- 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.