Percentages resources

Students calculate the percentage by which clothing prices have been reduced.

Students calculate percentages of whole numbers and convert fractions to percentages.

Students solve number problems involving prices which include and exclude GST.

Students convert percentages to decimals.

Students carry out an investigation to determine the frequency and percentage of different numbers resulting from 100 dice throws. They construct a table to record the results.

Students interpret a pie graph by answering questions on how city rates were spent over one year.

Students interpret data presented in a frequency table to calculate percentages and make comparisons.

Students express proportions as percentages and calculate percentages.

Students work out the height of trees which have grown by different percentages, and work out the percentage growth from two given heights.

Students perform addition, multiplication, and percentage calculations based on information about the cost of buying and posting computer programs.

Students calculate percentages of whole numbers.

Students increase and decrease quantities by given percentages.

Students increase and decrease quantities by given percentages.

Students calculate the amount of money saved from given percentage discounts on bikes.

For this NEMP task students calculate ratios, fractions, and percentages of numbers to solve problems involving numbers of blue and yellow bears. A sheet of coloured bears is provided.

Students identify percentages and fractions from information in a pie chart.

Students answer questions using percentages to find missing amounts, and writing percentages using given amounts.

Students answer questions from a histogram of distance of discus throws. Calculation is required.

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.

Students use percentages to calculate heights of a building from the total height. They then explain how to calculate another percentage.

Students write amounts shown on a grid as percentages or decimal fractions.

Students answer multiple choice questions about finding percentages of a whole number, and express a quantity as a percentage of another.

Students work out different percentages of a sum of money and the percentage of money left over.

Students solve number problems involving prices which include and exclude sales tax.

Students to interpret pie graphs by answering questions about percentages and numerical values.