MathsYears 5–6Fractions, Decimals & Percentages

Understand percentages

Recognise the percent symbol (%) and understand that percent relates to "number of parts per hundred"; write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100 and as a decimal

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine a chocolate bar with 100 squares. Each tiny square is 1% of the whole bar!

  2. 2

    How many squares in a chocolate bar that is 100%?

  3. 3

    Shade 25% of the 100-grid — that's 25 squares out of 100.

  4. 4

    Let's find 10% of 50 sweets.

  5. 5

    What is 10% of 80?

  6. 6

    Now shade 50% of a 100-grid. That's half of the squares!

  7. 7

    Which is bigger: 25% or 50% of the same bar?

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