Decimals - Multiply Decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000 - Starter

The educational resource provides a series of exercises aimed at enhancing Year 5 students' proficiency in handling decimals and division. The 'Fluent in Four - Revision' section presents multiplication problems to warm up the students' arithmetic skills. The activity then progresses to a sequence writing task, where students must discern the underlying rules governing numerical sequences. For instance, the sequence 4.36, 3.87, 3.38, 2.89, prompts students to recognise and articulate the rule, which is to subtract 0.49 from each number to arrive at the next. Similarly, the sequence starting with 0.1 and increasing in increments of 0.1 challenges students to identify the simple rule of adding 0.1 to continue the sequence.

Another intriguing exercise involves interpreting a graph that tracks pulse rate changes during exercise over time. Students are tasked with hypothesising what could cause the pulse rate to stabilise between the two and three-minute marks, suggesting a uniform exercise load. Additionally, the resource includes a division problem that requires understanding the concept of exchange. Students must complete the calculation of 95 divided by 4 by determining the correct number of ones to exchange and the remainder, leading to the answer 23 remainder 3. This exercise is designed to solidify their grasp of division with exchange, an essential mathematical skill.