Percentages resources

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

Students convert percentages to decimal numbers.

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.

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

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

Students express fractions, related distances covered, as percentages.

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

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