Which decimal skills do the fifth grade stories use?

All four operations, in story form: adding and subtracting amounts with up to two decimal places, multiplying a decimal by a whole number, and dividing a decimal total into equal groups. Five problems per sheet, each with room to show work and an answer line.

Do the answers come out even?

They land on clean tenths or hundredths, never repeating decimals. The point of the sheet is choosing the right operation and placing the decimal point, not wrestling long division that never ends.

5th grade decimal word problems

5th grade decimal word problems worksheets

Grade 5 decimal word problems cover all four operations with money and measurements: adding and subtracting amounts with two decimal places, multiplying a decimal by a whole number, and sharing a decimal amount into equal groups, per 5.NBT.B.7. Every answer lands on a clean tenth or hundredth.

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The kind of problems you'll get

Read each story. Show your reasoning and include the unit in each answer.

Ibrahim bikes 1.9 kilometers to the library and then 0.7 kilometers to a friend's house. How many kilometers does Ibrahim bike in all?
Answer: 2.6
Yuki runs laps at track practice. Each lap is 4.2 kilometer long. What distance does Yuki cover in 5 laps?
Answer: 21.0
A rope measuring 2.7 meters is divided into 2 equal sections. How long is each section?
Answer: 1.35

Every print pulls a fresh set of problems at this level, so a make-up test or a second sibling never gets the same sheet.

What's on each sheet

Decimal word problems. Read each story. Show your reasoning and include the unit in each answer. 5 problems per page.

Every version prints on US Letter or A4, with its answer key after the problems.

How to teach this

Before any computing, ask what the answer should be close to. If ribbon costs about 4 dollars and about 3 dollars, the total is near 7, so an answer of 71.5 means the decimal point slipped. Estimating first turns the decimal point into something your child checks instead of hopes about.

Watch for: Kids line up the right-hand ends of the numbers instead of the decimal points, so 4.35 + 2.8 becomes 4.35 + 0.28. The decimal point is the anchor; ones sit under ones. Kids expect multiplying to make the number bigger. With decimals under 1 it shrinks: 0.3 × 0.2 is 0.06, six hundredths, because you're taking a part of a part. Kids drop the zero that holds a place, writing 0.6 as 6 or reading 0.06 as 0.6. Say the value out loud in tenths and hundredths before writing it down.

Common questions about decimal word problems

Which decimal skills do the fifth grade stories use?: All four operations, in story form: adding and subtracting amounts with up to two decimal places, multiplying a decimal by a whole number, and dividing a decimal total into equal groups. Five problems per sheet, each with room to show work and an answer line.
Do the answers come out even?: They land on clean tenths or hundredths, never repeating decimals. The point of the sheet is choosing the right operation and placing the decimal point, not wrestling long division that never ends.

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Aligned to Common Core 5.NBT.B.7. Reviewed by the One more sheet team. Content version 240, updated September 2026.

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