Zoom into the line and pin the number 3.47 exactly.
Every zoom cuts one gap into ten equal pieces. Between 3 and 4 sit the tenths (3.4), and between 3.4 and 3.5 sit the hundredths (3.47). Decimals never run out - you can always zoom in and split again, which is exactly what each new place-value column means.
What to say if they get stuck
Drag the line left and right to travel. Use + to magnify.
3.47 lives between 3.4 and 3.5 - zoom until you can see the little hundredth ticks in that gap.
From 3.4, count 7 tiny ticks to the right. That is 3.47.
Drive the bar to , then work out the same amount as a percentage.
This engine’s own main skill is Converting Fractions to Percentages. It practises locate an equivalent value alongside it.
shades 3 of the 8 pieces of the bar. Dividing 3 by 8 gives exactly 0.375, and "per cent" just means "out of a hundred", so multiplying by 100 gives 37.5%. The three lanes stop at the same place on the board because they are not three amounts: they are one amount written three ways. Nothing was rounded anywhere - 3 divided by 8 stops dead after three decimal places.
Step 1. Line them up. Drag any lane. Land all three on and watch the other two follow.
Step 2. Under the flap. Two lanes are covered. is what percentage?
What to say if they get stuck
Drag any lane and all three move together - they are one amount wearing three names.
means the whole is cut into 8 equal pieces and you take 3.
Per cent means "out of a hundred". Fill the hundred square and count the cells.
The 11+ does not test these skills in isolation, and practising one in the wrong order wastes the practice. These are the skills the curriculum map connects this one to.
Symbolic equivalence transfers to number-line placement.
How locate an equivalent value differs from the skills beside it
The same exercise practises several skills, and telling them apart is often the difficulty rather than the exercise itself. On this page the skill is: locate a fraction, decimal, or percentage at the same number-line position, and it stops where one value and one bounded number line.
Questions parents ask about locate an equivalent value
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
Locate a fraction, decimal, or percentage at the same number-line position. It is one of 55 named maths skills in the 11+, in the fractions, decimals and percentages strand, and this page carries 2 interactive exercises that practise it.
The number of steps counted is the top of the fraction, not the bottom. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Count the small steps from 0 up to C; the line is split into 8 equal steps between 0 and 1.
The skill map draws the line here: One value and one bounded number line. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The skill map connects it to convert decimal and percentage. Symbolic equivalence transfers to number-line placement. That skill has its own page here.
Use Number Line Zoomer and Triple Track, embedded on this page. They are the exercises the skill map attaches to locate an equivalent value, they run in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. Each also has its own link, so you can send one to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
Knowing which maths topic to practise is most of the work
A free diagnostic covers arithmetic, fractions, geometry, measure and data handling, and comes back with the topics to spend the next few weeks on.
