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Free 6th Grade Fractions, Decimals and Percents Worksheets (converting)

Use this page when you want 6th grade fractions decimals and percents worksheets in the next thirty seconds: choose how many problems you want, press print, and the answer key comes out on its own page behind the worksheet. You will see items like 12/20 as a percent and 1/2 as a decimal on the printed page, with 60% and 0.5 waiting on the answer key so nobody has to redo the arithmetic.

📄 6TH GRADE FRACTIONS DECIMALS AND PERCENTS WORKSHEETS — A NEW SHEET EVERY TIME YOU PRESS THE BUTTON
🎲 New set of problems

‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.

What you are practising here

This sheet uses halves, quarters, fifths, tenths and hundredths, chosen so that the arithmetic can be done mentally by a child who knows the benchmark percentages, which is why a line such as 0.52 as a percent turns up.

Ten per cent is the pivot: divide by ten, then build. Twenty per cent is double it, five per cent is half of it, fifteen per cent is one of each. That method handles 1/2 as a decimal and most everyday percentage work without a calculator.

The three quantities in any percentage question are the part, the whole and the rate, and every question gives two of them. Identifying which two is most of the work.

Percentages, decimals and fractions are three notations for one idea, and switching between them fluently is what makes the whole topic feel small.

Work of this kind is commonly aligned with the ratio and proportional relationships strand for grade 6; schools outside the US meet the same skill at roughly the same age, which is why these 6th grade fractions decimals and percents worksheets travel well.

Six problems from the sheet in front of you

These six come from the sheet loaded on this page. Press the button and the numbers change, but the shape stays the same (halves, quarters, fifths, tenths and hundredths).
#ProblemAnswerWhat to check
112/20 as a percent =60%Watch for: adding percentages of different wholes
21/2 as a decimal =0.5Check: moving the decimal point the wrong way
36/25 as a percent =24%Look at: treating the percentage as a plain number
49/20 as a decimal =0.45Ask about: finding the percentage of the wrong quantity
50.52 as a percent =52%Watch for: confusing a percentage increase with the resulting value
61/5 as a decimal =0.2Check: rounding money percentages badly

A worked example from this sheet

Try 6/25 as a percent together before letting the child start alone. The answer to 6/25 as a percent is 24%, and talking through how it was reached takes about a minute and saves several minutes of guessing later in the sheet.

A good first problem to do together is 12/20 as a percent, which comes out at 60%. Do 12/20 as a percent once with the child narrating, then hand over the pencil and start the clock on the other 20 problems.

The three errors worth watching for

Getting the most out of 12 minutes a day

  1. Keep the session to about 12 minutes. A 6th grader who is still counting on fingers will need longer than that on a line like 12/20 as a percent, and that is fine: the timer is a measurement, never a punishment.
  2. Write the finish time and the score at the top of every sheet. Two weeks of those two numbers tells you more about progress on fractions, decimals and percents than any single test result.
  3. Run the sheet at the same time each day. Ten focused minutes before dinner beats an hour on Sunday, because fractions, decimals and percents is a recall skill: 12/20 as a percent has to arrive without being worked out, and recall is built by frequency.
  4. Stop the session at the time limit even if the sheet is unfinished, and note where the child got to. A half sheet done well is better data than a whole sheet rushed.
  5. Use a pencil, not a pen. Children working on fractions, decimals and percents rethink far more often when erasing is allowed, and you get to see exactly where the rethinking happened on an item like 6/25 as a percent.

Marking the sheet

The answer key is generated with the worksheet, not written by hand, so it always matches the sheet in front of you — 12/20 as a percent is listed as 60%, 1/2 as a decimal as 0.5, and so on down the page.

Every generated sheet carries its own key on a separate printed page, which lets a child self-mark without seeing the answers while they work.

How to print this worksheet

For a class set, print one sheet, press the new-worksheet button and print again. Each child gets different numbers on the same skill, so nobody can copy the answer to 12/20 as a percent from a neighbour.

Portrait orientation is what the sheet is designed for. Landscape works but wastes about a third of the paper, so leave the orientation alone unless you have a reason.

Frequently asked questions

Do percentages need to be converted to decimals?
For written calculation it is usually easiest, yes. For mental work the benchmark method is faster and less error-prone.
Why do percentages come up so much later in school?
Because they carry ratio, proportion and scaling all at once. Fluency here makes a large slice of later mathematics much less painful.
Are these worksheets really free?
Yes, completely. The page is supported by advertising, not by subscriptions, so there is no limit on how many 6th grade fractions decimals and percents worksheets you print.
How many different sheets can I make?
As many as you want. The numbers are randomised each time, so printing five sheets in a row gives five different sets of 20 problems on the same skill.

When these become easy, move along the related links below rather than adding more problems to the same sheet.

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Last updated: 2026-09-13