Extension Questions | Decimals And Percentages | Year 5

Deepen and develop your Year 5 pupils' understanding of decimals and percentages with these extension questions.

These 15 extension questions have been designed to allow pupils to go further in their understanding of decimals and percentages with a range of reasoning and problem solving questions.

This resource can be used as part of an extension activity for individual pupils or pairs or as part of a whole class discussion. Some teachers also set the extension questions as a homework activity or to provide additional challenges outside the classroom.

For those taking a maths mastery approach to teaching within a mixed ability class these extension questions are invaluable at allowing all pupils to work towards mastery of decimals and percentages.

This resource was created in response to teachers wanting more interesting and complex questions for their pupils, but also knowing that these questions take a long time to create.

We’ve now done the work so you don’t have to!

Suitable to use with mastery schemes such as White Rose.

What to expect from these Year 5 decimals and percentages extension questions:

• Solving word problems to determine the better discount between two percentages.
• Discussing the relationship between fractions and percentages in the context of spending money.
• Identifying the odd one out in a set of decimals, fractions, and percentages.
• Evaluating true or false statements related to the conversion between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Proving equivalences between different representations of fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Identifying and correcting mistakes in comparing decimals and percentages.
• Creating word problems based on given percentages.
• Proving or disproving statements involving calculations of percentages of numbers.
• Converting fractions into decimals and percentages, including intentional mistakes for learning purposes.
• Comparing decimal numbers and explaining the reasoning.