Word Problems | Fractions And Decimals | Year 5

Practise all different types and contexts for fractions and decimals word problems with your Year 5 pupils.

This worksheet contains 11 reasoning and problem solving questions to encourage your Year 5 pupils to develop their understanding of fractions and decimals.

The questions progress in difficulty, culminating in a challenge question.

Word problems can be used as individual tasks or to develop mathematical conversations through partner, small group or whole class work.

Teachers regularly request word problems that expose pupils to a wide variety of contexts and problem solving techniques on a single topic. With this resource pupils can develop confidence in reasoning and problem solving using their fractions and decimals knowledge and skills before moving on to more complex mixed topic problems.

Year 5 fractions and decimals word problems worksheet

• Fractions and decimals in real-life scenarios
• Application in everyday contexts such as hobbies
• Finding fractions of amounts
• Shading equivalent fractions
• Fraction and decimal equivalence