Understanding Percentages
Understand the per cent symbol (%); know that per cent means ‘number of parts per hundred’; write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100 and as a decimal
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If a shop advertises 50% off, can your child explain that this means half price — and write 50% as both a fraction and a decimal?
Understand the per cent symbol (%); know that per cent means ‘number of parts per hundred’; write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100 and as a decimal
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Check understanding
- Write 35% as 35/100 and as 0.35
- Shade 40% of a 10×10 grid and write the fraction 40/100
- Explain that 100% means the whole, 50% means half
“If a shop advertises 50% off, can your child explain that this means half price — and write 50% as both a fraction and a decimal?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Fractions
- Age range
- Ages 9–10