This Decimal Place Value Matching Card Game helps students develop their ability to read, interpret, and match decimal numbers to their expanded form. By engaging in this interactive game, students strengthen their understanding of numbers with more than 2 decimal places, place value and expanded form notation while practising critical thinking and memory skills.

How to Complete:

1. Students take turns flipping over one decimal card and one expanded form card, trying to find a matching pair.
2. The game promotes fluency in recognising decimal numbers while helping students connect numerical and expanded form representations.
3. The student with the most matching pairs at the end wins.

Additional Tips:

 
1. Print the decimal number cards on a different colour to the expanded form cards for easy sorting.

Extension Ideas:

1. Ascending Order Challenge: After matching, students arrange their collected pairs in ascending numerical order.
2. Write Your Own Match: Students write a new decimal number in both numerical and expanded form, and challenge a partner to match them.

This resource is part of our Year 5 Maths Unit – Decimals: Tenths, Hundredths & Thousandths.