Look at this big square. It is split into a hundred tiny squares, and the whole square is one. If the whole square is one, what is just one of those tiny little squares worth? And how many of them do you think you'd need to shade to colour in the whole square?
Four hundred-squares are shown below. On each one, notice how many squares are filled and where each digit lands after the point.
Together we'll hit four targets on the grid, in this order: 0.10 first (a full row of ten), then 0.03, then 0.40, and finally 0.62. For each one, say the decimal aloud, count the squares you'll shade, then press Check to see if the grid agrees. The zeros are the ones that catch people out, so we'll say each one aloud before we check it.
In your maths copy, shade 30 squares of a 100-grid. Then write it two ways underneath: as thirty hundredths, and as the decimal 0.30.
Today we work through these targets on the grid, in order: shade 0.01, then 0.10, then 0.25, and finally 0.75. Each one is a step trickier than the last — a single square, then a full row, then a quarter of the whole, then three quarters. Predict how much of the square will be covered before each reveal.
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