So, it is crucial that your students understand how they work and how to use them.
When it comes to adding and subtracting decimals, students can feel quite overwhelmed.
It is a big step moving from adding and subtracting whole numbers to then working with decimals.
But, fret no longer! We have gathered 15 essential worksheets for your classroom for your students to practice addition and subtraction of decimals.
These worksheets are ordered by level of difficulty from beginner to advanced.
Using these worksheets your students will be able to work with decimals in a variety of formats, including using money and images to represent decimal places.
Pretty soon your students are going to be experts in decimal sums!
Once your students have mastered adding decimal tenths, they will be ready to move onto decimal hundredths. This is where they will start adding together whole and decimal numbers.
Students must adopt the column method of addition. This is a similar method to the standard addition of whole numbers.
Utilizing this method will make adding and subtracting decimals a breeze and will help to solidify the concept for the class.
Of course, we are not only focusing on adding decimals but also subtracting them. This worksheet focuses on subtracting decimal tenths.
This works in the same way that the worksheet for adding decimal tenths works. Students must work out what decimal is missing in order to make up the next decimal tenth.
Use the adding and subtracting decimal tenths worksheets together in order to really tackle decimal tenths in the class.
This worksheet adds a little difficulty to its subtraction sums by mixing the use of whole numbers and decimals. Students must subtract a decimal number from a whole number.
This is a particularly useful skill, especially when working with money.
More often than not when we use money we don’t buy things that are rounded up, so we must be able to calculate the correct amount of change needed from a dollar.
Use this subtracting decimals to hundredths worksheet to go along with the adding decimals to hundredths worksheet.
Students are given a decimal number that they need to subtract from another number. This worksheet is great for practicing speedy subtraction of decimals.
Your students will be quick and efficient at this by the time they’re done with the lesson!
Give your students something to think about with this playful dizzy over decimals’ worksheet. Students must line up and add together the decimals shown.
This sheet uses a mix of numbers with varying decimal places and adds a challenging level to the task.
Some of these sums use 3-digit numbers to 3 decimal places, so get ready to provide your students with an amazing challenge.
This interesting worksheet gets your students to look at decimals in a new way. It provides them with images that represent ones, tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.
Students must figure out the number and its decimals from the collection of images in the box.
These questions are multiple choice, meaning that the student is provided with a list of potential correct answers. Students must determine which is the correct answer.
This is a great way to allow your students to look at decimals more imaginatively.
This worksheet combines two decimal centric activities. The first activity is the puzzle box. The concept of this activity is very similar to that of Sudoku.
Each side of the block must add up to a particular number. However, the numbers inside these boxes can only be used once. Students will need to think extremely hard about this neat puzzle.
The second activity on this sheet is a number pyramid. All that they need to do is add the numbers next to each other together in order to find out what the solution is at the top of the pyramid.
You could also do an alternative version of this activity where students must subtract numbers to find out a solution.
Let’s look at decimal problems in a different format. It is important for students to understand how to add and subtract decimals in number format.
However, it is also significant that they are able to recognize a sum in written format as well.
This worksheet is great practice for just that. It provides you with several interesting word problems that all involve adding or subtracting decimals.
Get your students to line these decimals up and solve them using the usual column method. This will get them prepared for their exams!
Final Thoughts
There are many real world applications for adding and subtracting decimals and these worksheets will help students understand these applications.
From working with money to even being able to work with time, it is essential for students to grasp the concept of decimals.
By using these worksheets your students will have a good foundation and understanding of decimals and how to calculate them so that they can move onto more difficult concepts such as multiplying and dividing decimals.
It is also an effective stepping stone to being able to teach the conversion of decimals to fractions.
We hope you find these worksheets useful and see positive results within your classroom for adding and subtracting decimals.
Use these worksheets and facilitate your students learning, most importantly enjoy doing it!
Hi, my name is Helena Waters and I was a teacher for 40 years before retiring last year.
During my time as a teacher I dedicated the majority of it to making classrooms as fun as possible, with educational parties, fun activities, and low cost entertainment that made the children excited about learning.
I taught children of all ages, from preschoolers to high school students. Now, with the pandemic having uprooted everything that children once knew about school and learning, I think that the need for my ideas is bigger than ever.
That is why I created School Sparks, a place in which I can write down and share all of my ideas on how to get students excited about going to school again. I hope that you’ll find some useful within a school setting, even at home too!
