Using discount percentages, students calculate the sale price of clothes from the original price. They also calculate the original price of a discounted item.
For this NEMP task students perform a range of tasks using fractions. These include ordering, subtracting, finding an equivalent and recording as a decimal and percentage.
Based on a results table, students respond to questions about the probability of events occurring when an arrow is spun and lands on different colours.
This practical task requires students to determine the number of different coloured beads needed to thread onto a necklace by interpreting different fractions.
From diagrams of four original and enlarged drawings to be used for Christmas wrapping paper, students identify the scale factor used and find a missing length on either the enlarged picture or the original picture.
In this practical task, students use their understanding of the link between capacity and volume to make cardboard containers that hold 250ml and 500ml of water.
Students use information in a table about exploding bottles of ginger beer to find the fractions and percentages of bottles that exploded or stayed sealed in given weeks.