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Add and Subtract Decimals: Finding Missing Numbers

In this worksheet, students practise their decimal addition facts by using subtraction to find the missing number.

'Add and Subtract Decimals: Finding Missing Numbers ' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 5 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Number: Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Curriculum subtopic:   Solve Problems with Decimal Places

Popular topics:   Decimals worksheets

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Worksheet Overview

Work out the missing number in the decimal addition problem:

  Pile of apples

 

 ____ +  3.87 = 5.99

 

To work this out, we must subtract 5.99 - 3.87 = 2.12

Use the inverse to help find the missing number. 

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