Bring some holiday sparkle to decimals. These Christmas decimals worksheets take Grade 5 and Grade 6 students from decimal place value through comparing, ordering and rounding to all four operations, then apply it to holiday-market money and measurement word problems. The theme is secular winter holiday: baubles, gift tags, cocoa, gingerbread and lights. All 86 answers were calculated in code and checked against the answer key.

What’s inside (15 pages):

• Teacher notes with timing, differentiation and standards
• Decimals anchor chart: place-value chart plus rules for add/subtract, multiply, divide and powers of ten
• 1 Decimal place value: 12 problems (value of a digit, words, standard and expanded form)
• 2 Compare and order decimals: 12 problems
• 3 Rounding decimals: 12 problems (whole number, tenth, hundredth)
• 4 Add and subtract decimals: 10 problems with room for working
• 5 Multiply decimals: 10 problems (by whole numbers, 10/100 and decimals)
• 6 Divide decimals: 10 problems (by whole numbers, 10/100 and decimals)
• 7 Holiday market word problems: 10 money and measurement stories
• 8 Mixed challenge: 10 problems (missing numbers, order of operations, estimating, find the mistake)
• 4 cut-apart exit tickets
• Full answer key (2 pages)

86 numbered problems plus 4 exit tickets.

Formats: color PDF, black-and-white printer-friendly PDF, UK A4 edition (Years 6-7, pounds and pence, UK spelling) and an editable DOCX of the student pages.

Use it for whole-class lessons, math centers, small groups, early finishers, sub plans or homework. One page a day makes a two-week December decimals unit. Students need only a pencil.

Standards: CCSS 5.NBT.A.1-4, 5.NBT.B.7, 6.NS.B.3. England NC Year 5 (decimals: read, write, order, compare, round), Year 6 (multiply and divide decimals, money problems) and Year 7.

All problems and artwork are original. Secular winter-holiday theme.