Year 5 Decimals up to 2 places higher ability

These worksheets display numbers with up to 2 decimal places.

Using a hundred piece of base 10 as 1 whole, a ten piece as a tenth and a one piece as a hundredth shows children that they can exchange, for example, 10 tenths for 1 whole, or 10 hundredths for 1 tenth. A hundred square where each part represents 1 hundredth, or 0.01, can also help children to see the relationship between a hundredth, a tenth and a whole.

Children make decimal numbers using place value counters in a place value chart and read and write the numbers, as well as working out the value of each digit in the number. They also explore partitioning decimal numbers in a variety of ways.

When reading or writing a number, children may say

“one point twenty-four” instead of “one point two four”.

When there are hundredths but no tenths in a number, children may forget to include the zero placeholder in the tenths column.

You can use these questions to challenge your child.

Can you partition the decimal number different ways?

How many tens are there in 100?

How many ones are there in 10/100?

How many 0.1s are there in 1?

How many 0.01s are there in 0.1?