The place value charts on the Place Value Worksheets page were updated to make them fillable and savable and to address a concern with the placement of the decimal.
Fillable and savable: As with many other worksheets on Math-Drills.com, the place value charts now have fillable fields, so students and teachers can easily use the charts on their screens and save the result without the need to print the worksheet.
Decimal placement: Previously, the decimal resided on the line between the ones and tenths place without any additional space. When writing a number with a decimal, such as 88.8, there is definitely some additional space between the ones and tenths place to accommodate the space needed to write the decimal. In contrast, some publishers give the decimal an entire space in a place value chart that makes it look like the decimal is actually another place, but the decimal is not a place and does not take up as much space as a place. So, the solution was to give the decimal a skinny column in the decimal place value charts that is a separation between the whole numbers and decimals in the chart rather than a column with no width or a column the same size as the other places.
Of course, decimal place value charts using a comma as a decimal symbol are also available, labelled as “European Format.”
