Percentages resources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Students calculate percentages of whole numbers and convert fractions to 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.

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

Students convert percentages to decimal numbers.

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

Students express proportions as percentages and calculate percentages.

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