What this lesson shows
1.409, 1.519, 1.59, and 1.9 on a scaled line, then compared from the biggest place down.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: 1.519 ○ 1.59. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Line up the points
- Biggest place first
- The first difference decides
Helping at home
Line the points up, then compare from the biggest place down. The first place where the digits differ decides which is greater.
If your kid gets stuck
Which place is the first to differ?
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
Standards
- Common Core 5.NBT.A.3b
Compare two decimals to thousandths based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
Matches standards in 49 statesSee each state's code
- Alabama MA19.5.4b
- Alaska 5.NBT.3.b
- Arizona 5.NBT.A.3.b
- Arkansas 5.NPV.5
- California 5.NBT.A.3
- Colorado 5.NBT.A.3.b
- Connecticut 5.NBT.A.3
- Delaware 5.NBT.A.3
- District of Columbia 5.NBT.A.3
- Florida MA.5.NSO.1.4
- Georgia 5.NR.4.2
- Hawaii 5.NBT.A.3
- Idaho 5.NBT.A.3.b
- Illinois 5.NBT.A.3
- Indiana 5.NS.1
- Iowa 5.NBT.A.3.b
- Kansas 5.NBT.3.b
- Kentucky KY.5.NBT.3.a, KY.5.NBT.3.b
- Louisiana 5.NBT.A.3.b
- Maine 5.NBT.A.3b
- Maryland 5.NOS.A.3.c
- Massachusetts 5.NBT.A.3.b
- Michigan 5.NBT.A.3
- Minnesota 4.1.2.4, 5.1.2.1, 5.1.2.3
- Mississippi 5.NBT.3.b
- Missouri 5.NBT.A.2, 5.NF.A.3
- Montana MT.5.NBT.3.b, 5.D1.1
- Nebraska 5.N.2.b
- Nevada 5.NBT.A.3
- New Hampshire 5.NBT.A.3
- New Jersey 5.NBT.A.3b
- New Mexico 5.NBT.A.3
- New York NY-5.NBT.3.b
- North Carolina NC.5.NBT.3.b
- North Dakota 5.NO.NBT.2
- Ohio 5.NBT.3.b
- Oklahoma 5.N.1.3
- Oregon 5.NBT.A.3
- Pennsylvania CC.2.1.5.B.1
- Rhode Island 5.NBT.A.3.b
- South Carolina 5.NR.1.1
- South Dakota 5.NBT.A.3.b
- Texas 111.7.b.2.B
- Utah 5.NBT.3.b
- Vermont 5.NBT.A.3
- Virginia 4.NS.4e, 5.NS.1d
- Washington 5.NBT.A.3
- West Virginia M.5.6
- Wisconsin M.5.NBT.A.3