Percentages resources

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 express proportions as percentages and calculate percentages.

Students calculate percentages of whole numbers.

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

Students convert percentages to decimal numbers.

Students write decimal fractions as percentages.

Students interpret information presented in a composite histogram to answer questions involving percentages and comparisons.

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

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

Students express fractions, related distances covered, as percentages.

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

Students calculate percentages of whole numbers and convert fractions to 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 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 to interpret pie graphs by answering questions about percentages and numerical values.

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

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