Word Problems | Percentages And Decimals | Year 5

Practise all different types and contexts for percentages 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 percentages 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 percentages and decimals knowledge and skills before moving on to more complex mixed topic problems.

Year 5 percentages and decimals word problems worksheet

• Percentages and decimals in real-life scenarios
• Decimal and percentage equivalence
• Finding percentages of amounts
• Calculating with decimals