10.0 of the best decimals worksheets and resources for KS2 maths
Make sure your primary pupils get the point of decimal places with these worksheets, activities, lessons and other resources…
- by Teachwire
1 | Move from whole numbers to decimals smoothly
Give your students a good grounding in decimals with this piece from Mike Askew, which looks at the challenges pupils face in the move from working with whole numbers to decimal numbers.
Mike runs through common misconceptions and how you can help children avoid them, while offering great exercises and ideas to help them fully understand the mathematical concepts.
2 | Place value misconceptions
This video, similarly, looks at the common misconceptions children make when learning about place value with decimal numbers, and how you can address them.
This includes things like thinking 3.27 is a larger number than 3.8 (because ’27’ is larger that ‘8’ and/or because 3.27 has more decimal digits) and suggests you get them to think of decimals numbers ‘three and twenty-seven tenths’ rather than ‘three point two seven’.
3 | Year 4 worksheets
These worksheets cover a variety of decimal-related areas for Y4 including recognising and writing decimal equivalents to 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4; recognise and writing decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths; comparing decimal numbers and rounding decimals to the nearest whole number.
Get these resources here:
- Decimal Equivalents – Halves and Quarters
- Decimal Equivalents – Tenths and Hundredths
- Comparing Decimal Numbers
- Rounding Decimals
4 | Year 5 worksheets
Carrying on into Y5, these sheets cover things like solving problems involving numbers up to three decimal places; recognising and using thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents; writing decimals as fractions and more.
Download them here:
- Decimal Problems: Fractions
- Decimal Equivalents: Fractions
- Writing Decimal Numbers as Fractions
- Rounding Decimals
- Ordering Decimals
- Percentages, Decimals and Fractions
5 | Year 6 worksheets
And finally, on to Y6, these two resources cover the recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts; and multiplying one-digit numbers with up to two decimal places by whole numbers.
You’ll find these worksheets here:
6 | Multiplication and decimals game
In this game pupils are dealt four number cards and tasked with assembling eight multiplication sums that include a single decimal number.
The product of each sum has to be as close as possible to a corresponding target number in an adjacent column.
7 | Ordering fractions and decimals worksheet
These SATs-style questions will help to test and extend students’ understanding as well as helping them to prepare for SATs next year.
These questions have fully-worked solutions which can be displayed on a whiteboard making feedback with students more efficient.
8 | Ordering fractions and decimals SATs questions
More topic-focused SATs questions to use at the end of a unit for early SATs preparation.
This particular compilation is from the fractions, decimals and percentage strand and contains questions which require students to think about the relative sizes of fractions and decimals, and the order that they would be written on a number line.
9 | Fractions to decimals loop cards (and vice versa)
These particular sets of cards allow students to practise converting decimals into fractions and vice versa.
The fractions are common fractions, so it’s acceptable that they learn the conversions rather than actually work them out each time.
Click these links for fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
10 | Fractions to decimals treasure hunt
This is a quick activity, ideal as a starter, that helps verify students knowledge of common fraction-decimal equivalences.
