Why smaller units exist
A little over is not a number
A plank is a little over 3 metres. Nobody can order a second one to match that.
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A Peek Beyond the Point · Class 7 Mathematics · Ganita Prakash
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Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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What a tenth is
Cut the whole into ten
Split one whole into ten equal pieces. Each piece is one tenth.
How a tenth is written
The point marks the wholes
One tenth is written 0.1. The dot is the decimal point.
Where decimals come from
The table never stops
In a whole number each place is one tenth of the place on its left.
Tenths, hundredths, thousandths
Three places, one rule
One tenth of a one is a tenth; one tenth of a tenth is a hundredth; one tenth of that is a thousandth.
Taking 0.125 apart
Read the places, not the digits
In 0.125 the 1 is in tenths, the 2 in hundredths and the 5 in thousandths.
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Tenths and hundredths
When a whole unit is too big to measure with, it is cut into ten equal parts called tenths, written after a decimal point. Cutting a tenth into ten again gives hundredths. Each place is one tenth of the place on its left…
- A measurement has to be a number, so "a little over 3" will not do.
- One whole cut into ten equal parts gives tenths, and ten tenths rebuild the whole.
- One tenth is written 0.1, in the first place after the decimal point.
~35 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Place value, and the units we measure in
The place-value table does not stop at the ones. Each place is one tenth of the place on its left, which gives tenths, hundredths and thousandths. Because the metric units are built on tens, converting between them is a…
- Each place is one tenth of the place on its left, before and after the point.
- The places after the point run tenths, hundredths, thousandths.
- One thousandth is written 0.001, and a thousand of them make one whole.
~40 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Comparing decimals, and adding and subtracting them
A longer decimal is not a larger one, because its extra digits sit in smaller places. Comparison runs place by place from the left and stops at the first difference. Addition and subtraction need the points in one column…
- A whole number gains digits in bigger places; a decimal gains them in smaller ones.
- Compare place by place from the left, and the first difference decides.
- So 0.8 is larger than 0.75, because eight tenths beats seven.
~45 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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A whole is cut into ten equal parts and one of those parts has to be written down as a number. Written that way, one tenth is
Beginner
A 0.01
B 1.0
C 10
D 0.1
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0.1
One whole cut into ten equal pieces gives 0.1.
One of those tenths is cut into ten equal parts again, and one of the new parts has to be written. Written that way, one hundredth is
Beginner
A 0.01
B 0.1
C 1.00
D 100
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0.01
A tenth cut into ten again gives 0.01.
A number is written with digits on both sides of a dot, and that dot has a name of its own. The dot in 0.1 is called
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A the full stop
B the place marker
C the unit sign
D the decimal point
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the decimal point
It marks where the whole units end.
A whole is rebuilt by putting its tenths back together, one after another, until nothing is missing. Making one whole, the tenths number
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A one hundred
B five
C ten
D one thousand
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ten
Ten equal pieces were cut from the whole.
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