Place Value Shifts: Challenge & Extension
Mathematics
GCSE Higher
11 questions
~22 mins
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About This Worksheet
A worksheet exploring how dividing decimals by 10, 100, and 1000 results in place value shifts. Designed for challenge and extension, it includes procedural, reasoning, and real-world problems to deepen understanding.
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Place Value Shifts: Challenge & Extension
Subject: MathematicsGrade: GCSE Higher
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Practice Questions
Answer all questions. Show your working in the grid spaces provided.
1.
Calculate 4.56 ÷ 10 and write the answer in the grid.
[2 marks]2.
What is 7.89 divided by 100? Show your working.
[2 marks]3.
Divide 12.345 by 1000 and record the result.
[2 marks]4.
Plot the point (x, y) on the grid where y = 2x, for x=3.
[2 marks]5.
Construct a triangle with sides 3.5, 7.0, and 10.5 on the grid. Label the sides and check if it is a scalene triangle.
[3 marks]6.
A decimal number, when divided by 10, becomes 0.0456. What was the original number?
[3 marks]7.
A store reduces a price of £12.34 by dividing the decimal by 100. What is the new price?
[3 marks]8.
Explain the reason why dividing a decimal by 100 results in shifting the decimal point two places to the left.
[4 marks]9.
A number 8.76 is divided by 10. Then it is divided by 100. What is the final result?
[2 marks]10.
Identify and correct the mistake: If 5.678 is divided by 10, the answer is 0.5678.
[3 marks]11.
A number 0.0345 is divided by 1000. What is the result and explain the place value shift?
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- 1/1/2026
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- 1/1/2026
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