NCERT Book Class 5 Maths Chapter 10 Tenths and Hundredths

10 Tenths and Hundredths
What was the length of the smallest pencil you have used?

How long is this pencil ? Guess _______ cm

Measure it using a scale. How good is your guess?

We can see that Anju used a lens to make it look bigger.

It is more than
3 centimetres.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
3 4

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o th me 6 millimetres long.
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call

See I am
3 mm long!

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1 2 3

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We also call one-tenth of a centimetre as 0.1 centimetre. We read
it as ‘zero point one centimetre’.
So one millimetre is the same as 0.1 cm.

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