Cardinal Math

Grades 2–4 · 2.NBT.4, 4.NF.7 · sheet 12 of 30

Comparing numbers and decimals

A printable worksheet, new every day, with a key that names the mistake.

  • Twelve pairs of three-digit numbers, some set up to trap a child who compares the ones digit first, and eight decimal pairs like 0.5 and 0.45.
  • The key names the rule behind a wrong sign: the ones digit decides, the longer decimal is bigger, or the shorter one is.
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Comparing numbers and decimals

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Name Date
  1. 1 942188
  2. 2 879861
  3. 3 880851
  4. 4 404992
  5. 5 955345
  6. 6 438856
  7. 7 0.330.67
  8. 8 673109
  9. 9 0.70.27
  10. 10 0.180.5
  11. 11 562527
  12. 12 0.300.3
  13. 13 0.980.6
  14. 14 0.840.32
  15. 15 936496
  16. 16 0.80.80
  17. 17 0.830.3
  18. 18 585587
  19. 19 367368
  20. 20 291501
Cardinal Math · sheet 12 key: cardinalmath.com/worksheets/comparing/12/key/

The app does this live.

It picks the next problem from the last answer, skips ahead or doubles back, and animates the teaching instead of handing over a rule. Inside the app the same patterns the key names are caught as your child plays.

How to use the key

Mark the sheet against the key. Beside each answer it lists what the known mistakes would have written. One wrong answer is a slip. The same pattern three times is a rule your child is following, and the guide says what to do about it tonight.

On this sheet the key can tell apart: comparing numbers by the ones digit first (6 problems), the longer decimal is bigger (4 problems), the shorter decimal is bigger (4 problems).

Cardinal Math watches for all of these, every day.

Inside the app the same patterns are caught as your child plays, across the whole of K to grade 5, and explained to you in plain words. One price, no ads, no streaks. Coming to iPhone and iPad.

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