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Divide Decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000

In this worksheet, students will divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.

'Divide Decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 5 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Number: Multiplication and Division

Curriculum subtopic:   Multiply/Divide Using Decimals

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

In this activity, you will divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.

 

Dividing by 10 moves all digits one place to the right.

Place value chart showing 36 moving to 3.6

 

Dividing by 100 moves all digits two places to the right.

Place value chart showing 36 moving to 0.36

 

Dividing by 1000 moves all digits three places to the right and so on.

Place value chart showing 36 moving to 0.036

 

Remember that when a digit moves from the ones place to the tenths place, it hops over the decimal point.

 

Examples:

24 ÷ 10 = 2.4
31.2 ÷ 100 = 0.312
0.7 ÷ 1000 = 0.0007 

In the final one, did you see that we need three extra zeros to fill in the columns?

 

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