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Percentages

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A lesson starter does not have to be on the same topic as the main part of the lesson or the topic of the previous lesson. It is often very useful to revise or explore other concepts by using a starter based on a totally different area of Mathematics.

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Percentages Starters:

Estimating Percentages: Estimate the percentages of full circles and rectangles the sectors represent.

Fractions Decimals Percentages: Convert fractions to decimals, decimals to percentages and percentages to fractions.

High Interest: Calculating percentages through practice problems highlighting mental maths skills,

In Your Head: Here are the simple percentage calculations everyone should be able to do in their heads.

Odd Percent Out: A number of simple percentage calculations are given. The answers are in pairs. Which is the odd one out?

PercenTable: Complete the table by calculating common percentages without using a calculator.

Quick Percentages: Simple percentage questions appear on screen then fade every 8 seconds. This Starter is customisable.

Scaramouche: Can you work out from the five clues given what the mystery number is?

Sid's Schemes: Work out which is the best scheme for Sid to choose for his summer bonus. One scheme involves a common misconception about percentages.

Structured Settlement: Without a calculator match a a pie slice to a calculation to an answer.

 

Small images of these Starters ::  Index of Starters


Percentages Advanced Starters:

Double or Half?: At ten percent change per day is doubling achieved faster than halving?

Grandmother: How far would grandma have travelled after a suitably large number of days given her walking regime?

Hundred and Fifty Percent: Divide 110 into two parts so that the larger part is 150% of the smaller part.

Rich or Poor?: An interesting outcome of percentage increase and decrease

Square Root of 1%: What is the square root of one percent?

Index of Advanced Starters


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Percentages Quiz

Percentages Quiz

A multi-level quiz on finding percentages. The lower level questions can be done mentally while the highest level questions require a calculator.

The short web address is:

Transum.org/go/?to=percentagesquiz

 

Curriculum for Percentages:

Year 5

Pupils should be taught to recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal more...

Pupils should be taught to solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of ½, ¼, ⅕, ⅖, ⅘ and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25 more...

Year 6

Pupils should be taught to solve problems involving the calculation of percentages [for example, of measures, and such as 15% of 360] and the use of percentages for comparison more...

Pupils should be taught to recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts. more...

Years 7 to 9

Pupils should be taught to solve problems involving percentage change, including: percentage increase, decrease and original value problems and simple interest in financial mathematics more...

Pupils should be taught to define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’, interpret percentages and percentage changes as a fraction or a decimal, interpret these multiplicatively, express one quantity as a percentage of another, compare two quantities using percentages, and work with percentages greater than 100% more...

Pupils should be taught to interpret fractions and percentages as operators more...

Years 10 and 11

Pupils should be taught to set up, solve and interpret the answers in growth and decay problems, including compound interest {and work with general iterative processes} more...

Exam-Style Questions:

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Notes:

Percentages provide a useful and common way to express a part of a quantity. The word is derived from the Latin per centum meaning “by the hundred”. Although percentages are usually used to express numbers between zero and one, any ratio can be expressed as a percentage.

Pupils begin working with common percentages such as 50%, 25% and 10% and practise estimating percentages to get a better understanding of the concept. They then learn how to convert percentages to decimals and vulgar fractions and vice versa.

More advanced problem solving may include percentage change and how it is applied in real life to discounts and interest. A study of the use of percentages in the media can provide many discussion points and can provide a stimulus for classroom display work.

Percentages Teacher Resources:

Visualise Percentages: If you can picture in your mind what a percentage looks like you may be better able to preform mental calculations.

Fractions Decimals Percentages: Revise the methods for converting fractions to decimals and percentages.

Quick Percentages: Practise calculating simple percentages in your head with this animated visual aid.

Compound Interest Calculator: A customised online calculator for quickly finding the solutions to compound interest problems.

Percentages Activities:

Percentages Quiz: A multi-level quiz on finding percentages. The lower level questions can be done mentally while the highest level questions require a calculator.

Fraction Percentage: Match the fraction with the equivalent percentage. A drag and drop self marking exercise.

Fraction Percentage Pairs: The traditional pairs or Pelmanism game adapted to test knowledge of simple fractions and their equivalent percentages.

Particular Pipes: Construct the pipes using a set number of pieces with lengths given as fractions, decimals or percentages.

Express as a Percentage: This self-marking quiz requires you to work out what one quantity is as a percentage of a second quantity.

Express Percentage Puzzle: Drag the numbers into the percentage statements to make them true.

Fractions, Decimals, Percentages: An exercise on converting fractions to decimals, decimals to percentages and percentages to fractions.

Percentage Change: Test your understanding of using percentages with this self marking quiz about percentage change.

Estimating Percentages: Estimate the percentages represented by the diagrams.

Percentage Switch: Practise percentage increase and decrease calculations by completing this table.

Interest: Practise using the formulas for simple interest and compound interest.

Two-Step Percentages: An exercise in which each problem requires two percentage calculations to find the solution.

Finally there is Topic Test, a set of 10 randomly chosen, multiple choice questions suggested by people from around the world.

Percentages Videos:

Percentages video
Transum's Percentages Video


Percentages In Your Head Video: It is really useful to have some mental strategies for working out percentages in your head.

Express as a Percentage: Here are some examples showing how to express one quantity as a percentage of another.

Percentage Change Video: When you have mastered working out percentages you can then apply that skill to calculating percentage increase, decrease and reverse percentages.

Fractions Decimals Percentages Video: A reminder of the quick methods of converting between fractions, decimals and percentages.

What Are Percentages?: A light-hearted look at percentages from Math Antics.

Percentages Worksheets/Printables:

Test Scores To Percentages: A printable conversion table for teachers needing to convert a lot of test scores to percentages.

Percentages External Links:

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Two-Step Percentages

Two-Step Percentages

An exercise in which each problem requires two percentage calculations to find the solution.

The short web address is:

Transum.org/go/?to=twosteppercent

 

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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

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