Decimals activities

Engage your students when teaching decimals. This decimal activity allows your students to practice writing decimals, putting decimals in order, reading decimals, and rounding decimals. You'll also get them out of their seats and moving in math.

This hands-on activity get your students to understand how to round decimals.

In this quick and easy decimal place value game, students compete against one another to form the highest decimal number using playing cards.

This no-prep springtime game is a fun way to work on multiplying decimals and whole numbers.

Decimal place value activities and lessons for upper elementary. Includes anchor charts, interactive notebook pages, projects, and more.

This is a fun Transformations activity with a St Patrick's Day theme. Students will be determining the type of transformation that was p...

We came across these puzzles a few years ago. The premise is that you have a bunch of questions and matching answers. Students have cards that have either an answer or question on the edge. They then have to match up the edges that have the pairs of questions and answers and eventually it will make a shape. In this case the activity is matching up different representations of the same number (Decimals, Percents and Fractions). We found these puzzles originally on the Mr Barton Maths site…

Decimals to the tenths, hundreds, and thousandths. Fourth and fifth graders will have fun with this place value color-by-decimal activity. Perfect for math centers, homework, and substitute plans.

In Grade 4, we have been investigating the relationship between fractions and decimal numbers. As mathematicians and artists, we started off this inquiry by creating pixel art using Google Sheets by 'filling' squares out of a 10 by 10 table. Once we counted the number of squares of a certain colour to find out the fractional value, we converted the value into a decimal number! (example: seven squares purple out of a hundred squares = 7/100 = 0.07) After this task, we started working with…