Percentages resources

Students convert percentages to decimal numbers.

Students express a distance as a percentage of the distance of a whole journey, and calculate percentages or fractions of parts of the journey.

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

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

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

Students decide if a percentage statement is correct and explain their answer.

Students calculate percentage increases and decreases for odd jobs and show their working.

Students calculate an average and a percentage from raw data and comment on these findings.

Students recommend which store offers the cheapest product based on calculations of percentage increase or decrease, and fully justify their answers.

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

Students convert heights of a building into the percentage of the given total height, explaining how they solved some conversions. Assessment focus is on how they calculate these heights and what strategies they use.

Students interpret data presented in raw form to answer questions, calculate a percentage, and calculate a variety of data measures.

Students answer questions and calculate a percentage related to a bar graph of the ways students travel to school.

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

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

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

Students work out the cost of items of clothing both before and after GST has been added to them.

This practical task requires students to determine the number of different coloured beads needed to thread onto a necklace by interpreting different percentages.

Students express fractions, related distances covered, as percentages.

Students convert fractions to percentages and write percentages in their simplest fractional form.

Using discount percentages, students calculate the sale price of clothes from the original price. They also calculate the original price of a discounted item.

Students answer questions and calculate percentages from a frequency table of tree heights.

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.

For this NEMP task students complete a table showing fractions, percentages, and decimals that are equivalent.

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