Year 6 decimals and percentages
Year 6 decimals and percentages practice
Year 6 students build confidence when they can move between fractions, decimals and percentages. MathsBoost gives them short targeted quizzes with feedback after each answer.
What students can practise
Conversions, percentage of a quantity, decimal ordering, rounding and simple percentage word problems.
Why short practice helps
A short daily set is enough to reveal whether students understand place value or are relying on a memorised trick.
Sample practice questions
Question 1
Write 0.45 as a percentage.
Answer: 45%
Move from hundredths to percent.
Question 2
Find 20% of 85.
Answer: 17
10% is 8.5, so 20% is 17.
Question 3
Order 0.6, 0.56 and 0.605 from smallest to largest.
Answer: 0.56, 0.6, 0.605
Compare digits in the tenths, hundredths and thousandths places.