Decimals resources

Using place value blocks students demonstrate their ability to explain the meaning of digits in decimal numbers up to 3 decimal places.

Students order whole and decimal numbers from smallest to largest.

Students convert percentages to decimals.

Students calculate the cost of a set of books given unit prices for an individual book.

Students perform addition and multiplication based on information given in decimal form in a table.

Students find the sum of a number of given decimal weights of objects or the post.

Students solve problems involving money by finding the total spent and the change from a given amount.

Students perform decimal multiplication and division involving the cost of material, without the use of a calculator.

Students use all four operations to perform calculations using decimal values.

Students interpret a table of distances for a long jump competition, written to two decimal places, finding the longest and shortest jumps and ordering sets of three numbers.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of multiplication and division calculations using whole numbers and decimals.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of addition and subtraction calculations using whole numbers and decimals.

Students calculate addition and subtraction problems, written in decimal form, for city populations.

Students work out the difference in distances of throws and jumps of various athletic events.

Students use rates to solve word problems involving cooking and preserving.

Students carry out calculations involving addition, and multiplication of whole numbers by decimal numbers.

Students identify decimal numbers on a number line.

Students work out the cost and the weights of buying several bags of flour.

Different selections are made from a canteen menu that will cost a given amount. An extension activity is given that asks for all possible combinations to be found.

Students use addition and subtraction to work out costs related to the purchase of grocery items.

Students select and then write the appropriate words for numbers in decimal form.

Students round given decimal numbers to the nearest tenths, hundredths, and thousandths and identify possible original numbers from rounded numbers.

Students answer questions about place value.

Students work out problems about the weight and price of chocolate bars from some given information.

Students convert units of weight - grams and kilograms - to answer questions a range of food items.