Percentages resources

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

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

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

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

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

Students express fractions, related distances covered, as percentages.

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

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

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

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

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.