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 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 increase and decrease quantities by given percentages.

Students increase and decrease quantities by given percentages.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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