Slide the digits
Times 10 is not a times-table fact: the digits stay the same and move one place. Twenty number machines a page to make that obvious.
Move the digits, not the decimal point.
A powers-of-ten worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. Twenty rows a page, each a number in a box, an arrow marked with the rule — ×10, ÷100, ×1,000 — and a box to fill. Choose multiplying, dividing or both; by 10, by 10 and 100, or up to 1,000; and the numbers: round ones like 520 and 700, any whole numbers, or decimals for fifth grade (3.4 × 100, 56 ÷ 1,000 = 0.056). Three activities: write the result, work back to the starting number, or write the rule on each arrow. Numbers use commas the American way, and decimals never come out as 0.05600000001.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Read
Times or divide? By 10, 100 or 1,000?
Slide
× moves every digit up a place for each zero; ÷ moves it down.
Write
Fill the empty places with zeros, or put in the decimal point.
Activity
Operation
By
Numbers
Your worksheet lands here — download, print, or email it.