Decimals resources

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

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

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 answer questions about place value.

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

For this NEMP task students interpret a table of Olympic 1500-metre times, identifying fastest and slowest times.

This practical task requires students to order numbers with 2 decimal places from smallest to largest using digit cards. New numbers with 2 decimal places are then created with the digit cards.

Students calculate the cost of several cans of soft drinks, the maximum number bought for a given cost, and the change given after buying several cans.

Students calculate the weight for different numbers of soccer balls and calculate the weight for a given number of soccer balls.

Students order a set of student's weights from lightest to heaviest and identify the three students needed to equal a given weight total.

Students use addition and subtraction to calculate temperatures over periods of time.

Students convert units of weight - milligram, gram, kilogram, and tonne, in order to answer questions about potatoes.

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.

Students interpret scores from a gymnastics competition, written to two decimal places, finding the lowest and highest scores and ordering sets of four numbers.

Students calculate the number of different sized bottles of cola needed to make 6 litres and calculate the cheapest option to buy 12 litres

Students answer questions about total cost, cheapest, most expensive, and the maximum number of books that can be bought. Book prices are decimal numbers.