Daily math practice for 5th grade

Five days of decimal place value, one sheet a day, climbing from numbers near a thousand to numbers pressed up against ten thousand.

What the 5 days look like

Decimal place value · 5 daily sheets plus an answer key and a story map — 7 sides in all.

  1. Monday Warm-up

    Monday's numbers sit near a thousand — 1,227, 1,821, 193.
  2. Tuesday Build

    Tuesday moves into the middle thousands.
  3. Wednesday Practice

    Wednesday works the upper half of the range.
  4. Thursday Stretch

    Thursday closes on the boundary.
  5. Friday Challenge

    Friday crowds ten thousand — 9,888, 9,998, 9,878.

Why a week beats one long page

Place value is the quiet prerequisite for everything else in fifth grade — decimal arithmetic, rounding, and comparing all fail in the same way when it is shaky, and they fail invisibly, as answers that are right except for where the point sits. A week on it is cheap insurance.

How to run it

The climb is in how close the numbers sit to the next boundary. Monday's are comfortably inside their range; Friday's are 9,888 and 9,998, where naming a digit's value means keeping track of a number about to roll over. That is the case that catches a child who has been reading position by counting from the left.

Same week, different skill

Other Grade 5 packs

Every one of these builds a pack that gets harder day by day. A single times table fills three days rather than five — ten facts, each allowed back once. Skills whose questions are all one weight are left out.
All Grade 5 worksheets