Decimals and Percentages Mistake Investigators

Worksheet
Group work
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This Year 5 Decimals and Percentages Mistake Investigators resource includes a range of reasoning and problem solving style questions that are similar to questions children could encounter in assessments. The questions are designed to be answered in groups to promote discussion and development of reasoning skills.

The questions cover seven objectives to test children's understanding of conversion between decimals, percentages and fractions.
Twenty-eight questions are included across seven sheets of A4, with one sheet per objective.

If you're looking for something that will help your children develop their skills and help them to become more investigative learners, you're in the right place.

This resource is designed to align to White Rose Maths version 3. Classroom Secrets Limited is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to White Rose Education Limited. Our products are original to Classroom Secrets Limited and any reference to White Rose Maths is solely for the purpose of indicating compatibility and does not imply any association with White Rose Education.


Curriculum Objectives

  • Read and write decimal numbers as fractions [for example, 0.71 = 71/100]
  • Recognise and use thousandths and relate them to tenths, hundredths and decimal equivalents
  • Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place
  • Read, write, order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places
  • Solve problems involving number up to three decimal places
  • Recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal
  • Solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of 1/2 , 1/4 , 1/5 , 2/5 , 4/5 and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25

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Fractions Including Decimals

Spring

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Fractions, Decimals and Percentages