Decimals Worksheets

Thanks for visiting the Decimals Worksheets page at Math-Drills.Com where we make a POINT of helping students learn. On this page, you will find Decimals worksheets on a variety of topics including comparing and sorting decimals, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals, and converting decimals to other number formats. To start, you will find the general use printables to be helpful in teaching the concepts of decimals and place value. More information on them is included just under the sub-title.

Further down the page, rounding, comparing and ordering decimals worksheets allow students to gain more comfort with decimals before they move on to performing operations with decimals. There are many operations with decimals worksheets throughout the page. It would be a really good idea for students to have a strong knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division before attempting these questions.

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Grids and Charts Useful for Learning Decimals

General use decimal printables are used in a variety of contexts and assist students in completing math questions related to decimals.
The thousandths grid is a useful tool in representing decimals. Each small rectangle represents a thousandth. Each square represents a hundredth. Each row or column represents a tenth. The entire grid represents one whole. The hundredths grid can be used to model percents or decimals. The decimal place value chart is a tool used with students who are first learning place value related to decimals or for those students who have difficulty with place value when working with decimals.
Thousandths and Hundredths Grids

Decimals in Expanded Form

For students who have difficulty with expanded form, try familiarizing them with the decimal place value chart, and allow them to use it when converting standard form numbers to expanded form. There are actually five ways (two more than with integers) to write expanded form for decimals, and which one you use depends on your application or preference. Here is a quick summary of the various ways using the decimal number 1.23.
1. Expanded Form using decimals: 1 + 0.2 + 0.03
2. Expanded Form using fractions: 1 + 2 ⁄₁₀ + 3 ⁄₁₀₀
3. Expanded Factors Form using decimals: (1 × 1) + (2 × 0.1) + (3 × 0.01)
4. Expanded Factors Form using fractions: (1 × 1) + (2 × 1 ⁄₁₀) + (3 × 1 ⁄₁₀₀)
5. Expanded Exponential Form: (1 × 10 0 ) + (2 × 10 -1 ) + (3 × 10 -2 )
Converting Decimals from Standard Form to Expanded Form Using Decimals