Year 8 Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Worksheets

Cazoom Maths Year 8 Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Worksheets are developed by our UK curriculum specialists to strengthen mathematical understanding at a crucial stage in secondary education. These resources support teachers and parents in building students' confidence with interconnected number concepts. Each worksheet combines clear explanations with progressive challenges, ensuring learners grasp the relationships between different number forms. The materials align precisely with national curriculum expectations, providing structured practice that develops essential problem-solving techniques required in upper secondary years.

Colourful Equivalences (A)

Colourful Equivalences (B)

Equivalence Search (B)

Equivalence Search (C)

FDP Problem Solving

Fractions Decimals Percentages (A)

Fractions Decimals Percentages (B)

Ordering Fractions Decimals and Percentages (A)

Ordering Fractions Decimals and Percentages (B)

Quick Conversions (A)

Quick Conversions (C)

Recurring Decimals

Recurring Decimals to Fractions - Algebraic Method

Writing Rational Numbers as Decimals

Achieve Better Accuracy With Ready-to-use Year 8 FDP Worksheets

Your secondary school students need a strategic approach to advance from Year 7 foundational knowledge to complex applications through progressively advanced concepts in Year 8. Students develop mathematical fluency by understanding that fractions and decimals and percentages form connected concepts rather than studying them as separate subjects. Students develop both procedural skills and conceptual understanding through regular practice of these worksheets. The structured approach helps students avoid understanding gaps when they solve multi-step problems that require conversions and calculations. Students develop the ability to move between different representations while choosing the most suitable approach for each mathematical problem.

Specific learning benefits include:

• Converting fluently between fractions, decimals and percentages

• Calculating percentage increases and decreases

• Working confidently with recurring decimals

• Solving complex ratio problems

• Interpreting data using proportional reasoning

• Developing algebraic thinking through fraction manipulation

• Preparing for financial mathematics topics

Curriculum Coverage: Worksheet Topics and Skills Your KS3 Students Will Learn

Scaffolding progresses from visual representations and familiar contexts towards abstract manipulation and formal notation. Each worksheet includes worked solutions demonstrating multiple solution strategies, helping students understand not just the answer but the reasoning process. Problems build systematically from single-step conversions to multi-stage applications requiring strategic thinking.

The core skills covered include:

• Equivalent fractions – simplifying and finding common denominators

• Percentage calculations – finding percentages of amounts using multipliers

• Decimal operations – multiplying and dividing by powers of 10

• Fraction arithmetic – adding and subtracting mixed numbers efficiently

• Recurring decimals – converting between fraction and decimal notation

• Percentage change – calculating original values and compound changes

• Ratio and proportion – sharing quantities and scaling problems

• Order of operations – combining FDP with algebraic expressions

• Problem-solving – applying FDP knowledge to worded questions

Support Your Child’s Learning With Year 8 Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Worksheets

Our classroom-tested materials help Year 8 students by providing entry-level content for struggling learners and additional challenges for advanced students within typical groups. The worksheets strike a balance between procedural practice and conceptual exploration because they follow contemporary teaching methods for developing mathematical proficiency. The worksheets serve secondary schools immediately because they need no preparation and work with multiple teaching methods from direct instruction to independent discovery. The worksheets contain built-in differentiation because they offer various difficulty levels which enable students to learn at their individual speeds. The answer sheets help teachers save time during grading while maintaining strict assessment standards. The Cazoom Maths worksheets integrate perfectly with existing schemes of work by providing additional content that avoids repetition of textbook material.

Why Real-Life Maths Starts With Year 8 FDP Worksheets

Mathematical concepts gain meaning when students recognise their practical value beyond classroom exercises. Understanding percentages, fractions, and decimals opens doors to interpreting information critically in everyday situations.

• Personal finance – interest rates, discounts, and budget planning

• Data interpretation – understanding statistics in news reports

• Cooking and nutrition – scaling recipes and reading food labels

• Gaming and probability – calculating odds and success rates

• Engineering and design – precise measurements and scale drawings

• Business studies – profit margins and market share analysis

• Scientific investigation – expressing experimental results accurately

• Travel planning – currency conversion and distance calculations