Place Value Puzzles & Decimal Activities

Three activities to support students working on place value & decimals.

1. Reading & Writing Decimals Match
Students must match together numbers and statements about their place value. For example, 0.62 matches with '2 hundredths'. The questions all involve the numbers 1, 2 and 6, so students really have to think about the place value of the numbers shown. They can also record their matching pairs in a table, which makes it easy for you to check if they are getting them right and provide feedback.

2. Place Value Puzzles
This activity contains two pages of puzzles all about decimals and place value. Puzzles range from 'guess the number', based on clues about place value, to comparing and ordering decimals using inequality symbols.

3. Adding Decimals Code Breaker
A code breaker activity where students have to add decimals to reveal a secret message. The decimals are of different lengths so students will need to use some written methods.

Answers are included for all activities.