Decimals and Percentages - Order and Compare - Worksheet

The worksheet titled "Order and Compare Decimals" is aimed at enhancing children's ability to order and compare numbers with up to three decimal places. To facilitate their understanding, students use place value counters to represent the numbers, and number lines help them visualise the position of these numbers relative to others. The exercises require students to use pictorial representations and number lines to compare and order decimals, which increases in complexity as they progress. Additionally, the worksheet includes reasoning tasks that challenge students to apply their knowledge in different scenarios, further developing their decimal comprehension.

As part of the reasoning and problem-solving section, students encounter real-world examples where common misconceptions about decimals might arise. For instance, they are presented with statements where they need to determine the correctness, such as whether 5.3 is less than 5.208 because the digit 3 is less than 208. Another example includes deciding if 4.15 is greater than 4.2 because 15 is greater than 2. Through these exercises, students learn to correctly interpret decimal places and their values. The worksheet guides them to understand that 3 tenths is more than 208 thousandths, and 2 tenths is larger than 15 hundredths, thereby correcting misconceptions and reinforcing their understanding of decimal place values.