Partitioning tenths and hundredths

To deepen children's understanding of tenths and hundredths, I printed off various photos of the Rekenreks showing different amounts of hundredths in different ways.

I encouraged children to work in partners to draw part/whole models of the different ways they could partition the number represented.

I loved the child's method above as they started with 45/100 and then split this into 4 tenths and 5 hundredths, then 3 tenths and 15 hundredths, then 2 tenths and 25 hundredths and so on.

This child came up with a few different ways of partitioning 26 hundredths and use the number rack on the ipad to help her.

This child chose to use the Rekenrek to split the 45/100 into 9 sets of 5/100 which I thought was great!