This Decimal Word Problems Task Cards Activity helps students apply their decimal knowledge to real-world scenarios. The tasks focus on financial transactions, measurements, and scientific data, encouraging students to develop problem-solving skills while working with numbers with more than 2 decimal places.

How to Complete:

1. Task cards can be used in pairs, small groups, or as a whole-class activity.
2. Students read each card and solve the given problem, applying decimal operations or rounding strategies.
3. Answers can be recorded using the provided recording sheet, in student workbooks, or on mini whiteboards.
4. Teachers may choose to use only the comparison and ordering task cards (1-9) or the addition and subtraction task cards (10-18) based on student needs.

Extension Ideas:

1. Real-Life Budgeting: Have students create their own word problems using real shopping prices and expenses.
2. Measurement Investigation: Ask students to measure classroom objects, record the decimals, and create their own word problems.
3. Data Analysis: Provide students with real-world decimal-based data (such as temperatures or distances) and ask them to compare, round, and solve problems.

This resource includes 18 task cards, an optional recording sheet and an answer key to support student learning.

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