Tenths
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Tenths
Here’s a different way of dividing a shape into tenths
1/
10
4/
10
5/
10
8/
10
9/
10
2/
10
3/
10
6/
10
7/
10
10/
10
This shape is arranged in 5 rows of 2
Tenths
What about this one?
1/
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
This shape is arranged in 2 rows of 5
Tenths
Billy has a pound coin
He wants to share it
equally between 10
friends
How can he do this?
Tenths
He must change the pound coin into tenths!
£1 = ten 10p coins
Tenths
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
1/
10
Because there are ten 10p’s, we can
say that 10p is 1/10 of a pound