Hundredths worksheet

The worksheet provides a series of engaging activities designed to help Year 6 students understand and practise counting in hundredths. The first activity requires no equipment and involves a fun, physical aspect where children stand and count aloud in hundredths. The teacher selects a starting hundredth and the child who will begin the counting. As each child states a hundredth in sequence, any mistakes result in the child sitting down. The goal is to continue until no one is left standing. Variations of this activity include timing the sequence to add pressure or introducing a 'Switch' command to change the counting direction, adding an extra layer of challenge.

Activity two introduces a counting stick with marked intervals and requires sets of hundredth cards or post-it notes. Students start at zero and count forwards and backwards in hundredths, attaching the cards to the counting stick. They are encouraged to explain their reasoning when positioning the hundredths. This activity also has variations, such as using a timer, asking children to find the correct placement without guidance, or identifying which hundredths would be adjacent to a pointed position on the number line. The third activity involves distributing different hundredths cards to each child, who must then arrange themselves in the correct numerical order. This can be done silently for added difficulty or with certain cards withheld to challenge the children to identify missing hundredths in the sequence. Both activities aim to solidify the students' understanding of hundredths as a result of dividing an object into one hundred equal parts or dividing tenths by ten.