Decimal worksheets

Decimal work becomes much clearer when students treat the decimal point as a place-value marker rather than decoration. These worksheets keep every operand at the selected precision, making tenths and hundredths easy to line up before calculating or comparing.

Choose addition, subtraction, comparison or rounding. You can use one or two digits before the decimal point and practise tenths or hundredths. Rounding supports the nearest whole number and the nearest tenth, while subtraction problems always have answers of zero or more.

Suggested progression

• Read and compare tenths using place-value language.
• Add and subtract tenths by lining up decimal points.
• Repeat the same skills with hundredths and two-digit whole-number parts.
• Round tenths to whole numbers, then round hundredths to tenths.

Teaching tip: line up place values

Have students say each number in words before calculating, then place tenths under tenths and hundredths under hundredths. For comparison, examine the whole-number part first and move right one place at a time. For rounding, identify the target digit and use the digit immediately to its right to decide whether the target stays the same or increases by one.

How to print this worksheet

1. Check the settings above. They are already set for decimal operations.
2. Pick 10, 15, 20 or 30 problems, a title, and the name or date lines you want.
3. Choose US Letter or A4 to match the paper in your printer.
4. Press Download PDF for a file you can save and reuse, or Print to send it straight to your printer.
5. Keep the answer key page for yourself. The sheet number in the footer lets you make the exact same sheet again later.