Writing Decimals


Writing Decimals

The number 350.214 is shown in the place value chart below:

Whole Numbers
Decimals
hundreds
 tens
 ones

tenths  
hundredths   
thousandths
  3  
5
 0
.
   2 
    1         4    
The last digit after the decimal point shows us what to call the decimal part

The value of the digits to the right of the decimal point is less than 1

Standard form: 350.214

Word form: three hundred fifty and two hundred fourteen thousandths

Short word form: 350 and 214 thousandths

For decimals greater than one, say the whole number part, read the decimal point as "and," then say the decimal part.

Example

4.035

"four and thirty-five thousandths"