Percentages are out of 100. That is what it means. To help you remember this, think of a century is 100 years, a centurion was in charge of 100 legionaries, dollar has 100 cents in it. The symbol for percent is %.
Say you want to find what 45 out of 60 is as a percentage, you do 45 divided by 60 and then times the answer by 100, which would give you 75%. Note that you end up with a percent answer here.
Say you want to find what 35% of an amount, say 200, is, then you need to do 35 divided by 100 then times that by 200 which would give you 70 as the answer. Note that this is an amount and not a percentage.
This self marking spreadsheet concentrates on finding a percentage of money. The first worksheet is number bonds to 100, then looking at percentages of £1.00. The third worksheet looks at percentages of common currency and then the final one looks at the percentage of any amount of money.
This work looks at percentage change, simple interest and compound interest.
This looks at what percentage one part of another is, find the percentage of a amount, convert a percentage into a multiplier, convert percentages to fractions.
TA mixture of FDP which looks to convert one to the others, add a mixture of fractions and percentages and decimals together, order FDP.
Percentages of amounts, comparing one percentage to another, solving problems, ordering FDP, calculations involving converting FDP, increasing and decreasing percentages, simple interest, compound interest and four number operations on decimals.
GCSE questions on FDP including discounts, increase by a percentage, conversions of FDP, comparing one amount to another, percentage of amounts, fractions of amounts, problem solving.
Conversion of FDP, ordering FDP, problems with fractions of amounts, compound interest, comparisions after calculations.
Video on a percentage of a fraction of an amount.
Video on a percentage of an amount and how to calculate it by hand.
Booklet full of questions on calculating the percentage of an amount.
Video on calculating the percentage of an amount.
Video showing you how to calculate the calculate the original amount given that you now have a percentage increase or decrease and the new amount.
Work to go with the video on comparing fractions and percentages.
Work to go with the video on comparing fractions and percentages.
Questions on percentage increase and decrease over several iterations. This sheet includes answers so if you are printing them off for your class, do not print page 2.
Questions on percentage increase and decrease over several iterations. This sheet includes answers so if you are printing them off for your class, do not print page 2.