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Describe That Decimal Worksheet

Teach Starter Publishing
PDF | 1 page | Years: 4 - 6

A worksheet to deepen students' understanding of decimals.

Use this teaching resource to help consolidate your students’ understanding of decimals.

Assign each student a decimal, or allow the students to choose their own decimal. This is written in the box at the top of the worksheet.

Students then complete a range of activities to describe their decimal. Activities include:

  • identifying a decimal that is less than and greater than their chosen decimal
  • identifying an equivalent fraction and percentage
  • adding the decimal to a place value chart
  • multiplying and dividing the decimal by 10, 100 and 1000
  • rounding the decimal to the nearest unit, tenth and hundredth
  • adding 1, 0.1 and 0.01 to the decimal.

Display the completed worksheets around your classroom.

Curriculum

  • AC9M4N01

    Recognise and extend the application of place value to tenths and hundredths and use the conventions of decimal notation to name and represent decimals

  • AC9M5N01

    Interpret, compare and order numbers with more than 2 decimal places, including numbers greater than one, using place value understanding; represent these on a number line

  • AC9M5N04

    Recognise that 100% represents the complete whole and use percentages to describe, represent and compare relative size; connect familiar percentages to their decimal and fraction equivalents

  • AC9M6N05

    Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions using knowledge of equivalent fractions

  • AC9M6N06

    Multiply and divide decimals by multiples of powers of 10 without a calculator, applying knowledge of place value and proficiency with multiplication facts; using estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers

  • AC9M6N08

    Approximate numerical solutions to problems involving rational numbers and percentages, including financial contexts, using appropriate estimation strategies

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  • Karina Guerrero-Tapia
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    omg love love love love this!

    • Janeen
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      Hi Karina It's our pleasure to provide you with resources like this! So glad it is useful for you. Cheers Janeen

  • Jason Hosking
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    Can I suggest something similar for Stage 2? This would remove the thousandths place and percentage references.

    • Paul (Teach Starter)
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