Here is one whole strip on the board, and it has been split into ten equal pieces. If we shared this one bar of chocolate fairly between ten people, how much would each person get? What could we call one of these ten equal pieces?

The interactive shows one whole flat split into ten equal rods, with some shaded. Watch how many rods are shaded and read it three ways: in words, as a fraction, and as a decimal. Notice where the decimal digit sits.

Now we shade tenths together on the fraction strip. There is one ten-part strip on the board and a half-strip beside it. An individual pupil comes up, shades the strip to the amount called out, then presses reset and the next pupil shades the next amount. We will do 0.1, then 0.5, then 0.8, and finally the full ten tenths.