Multiplying and Dividing Decimals

An excellent lesson jam packed with time saving goodies: Animated Powerpoint, Have-a-go AFL questions, fluency, problem solving and reasoning worksheets, lesson plan and all answers included.

Download this effortless lesson which teaches children how to multiply and divide decimals to save hours of your planning and marking time.

Be confident in your pupils understanding as the engaging PowerPoint covers these key teaching points:

• An explanation of decimals
• A review of place value titles and how they work
• Visual examples of when we need to multiple and divide decimals
• An interactive, step by step animation of how to do the written method for multiplication
• An interactive animation of the division written method (bus stop)
• A reminder of how to solve word problems
• Clues for if the operation is multiplication or division

Enjoy using these helpful slides showing the written methods clearly using colour, arrows and reminders to make it easy to understand.

Print our these interesting and realistic word problems so your pupils can consolidate their learning in real life contexts. Extend your pupils with multi step problems for a challenge and a page of higher level questions for quick finishers.

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• Adding and Subtracting Fractions
• Converting Fractions to Decimals
• Factors, Multiples, Squares and Cubes