Decimal Practice Worksheets | Tenths, Hundredths, Comparing and Operations

Decimal practice worksheets for tenths and hundredths

These decimal practice worksheets are a 13 page packet with 80 questions for 4th grade. Students work with decimals through tenths and hundredths, link them to fractions, compare and order them, and add and subtract them.

The four sections build from place value to operations, so students move from reading a decimal to using it in a calculation.

Teachers who need decimal practice worksheets for a unit on decimals will find four sections of 20 questions here, and the packet comes with an answer key, an answer sheet and a lesson plan.

What’s on the pages

The worksheet has four sections of 20 questions each, and each one has its own heading and directions.

• Understanding tenths and hundredths: multiple choice questions, such as which decimal shows 0.4 written as hundredths, the decimal value of 2/10 and the value of a digit in 8.19.
• Comparing and ordering decimals: true or false statements, such as 0.85 being less than 0.9, 0.60 being equal to 60/100 and 0.30 having the same value as 0.3.
• Decimal equivalents fill in: students use a Number Bank to write a fraction as a decimal, such as 8/100 and 3/100. Not all of the numbers are used.
• Adding and subtracting decimals: students solve problems such as 0.3 + 0.4, 0.76 – 0.26 and 2.1 + 3.4.

The false statements are common mix-ups, such as thinking that a longer decimal is always larger.

What’s in the download

• Student worksheet: 13 pages
• Answer key: 14 pages, with a short explanation after each answer
• Answer sheet: 4 pages
• Lesson plan: 2 pages

The four parts add up to 33 pages, and everything comes as PDF.

How to use these decimal practice worksheets

The lesson plan is set for 60 minutes. Its objectives are to understand the place value of decimals through tenths and hundredths, to convert between fractions with denominators of 10 or 100 and decimals, to compare and order decimals, and to add and subtract decimals to hundredths with aligned place values.

The plan begins with a 10 minute warm-up that shows tenths and hundredths on a 10 by 10 grid. Students then complete the sections in order, and they show their working steps on scratch paper for Section 4. The class ends with a group review of key problems from each section.

The materials list a printed worksheet and answer sheet for each student, a teacher copy of the answer key, pencils and scratch paper, and optional base-ten blocks or grid charts.

The answer sheet keeps the worksheet clean for reuse, and the answer key gives a short explanation after every answer.

Families who look for 4th grade decimals practice or tenths and hundredths worksheets will find both here, and the decimal practice worksheets with answer key pages let a helper check the work in minutes.

Each section can stand alone, so a teacher can start with place value and wait to use the operations section until students are ready. Students who finish early can write their own decimal in words, as a fraction and on a grid. Because every answer is explained in the key, a student can fix a mistake without waiting for the teacher, which saves time during a busy math block.

Where it fits

Use it for a decimals unit, math centers, homework, intervention or a review before a test. Homeschool families can work through one section a day.

Take a look at the preview pages before you buy, so you can see the worksheet, the answer key and the answer sheet.

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Many teachers use these decimal practice worksheets in a weekly routine, one section per day, and repeat the set after a few weeks to see growth.

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