Decimals resources

Students convert fractions to decimals and explain how to do it.

Students calculate how price changes affect a purchase.

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

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.

This task requires students to write down decimal numbers that are read out to them.

Students convert percentages to decimal numbers.

Students order whole and decimal numbers from smallest to largest.

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

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 use prices of vegetables to perform all four arithmetic operations on decimal numbers.

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