Percentages
In this section there are activities to help with work on percentages. These make great starters for all age groups to quickly test their basic skills using the QuickQuestion Interface ©.
Finding a percentage of an amount is a life skill you will use all the time. Use these activities to practice.
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Use these activities to write numbers as a percentage of each other (for example finding your percentage score or mark).
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Find the percentage change from one amount to another, such as calculating your percentage profit or loss on an item.
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Being able to increase or decrease by a percentage is a key life skill, used in adding tax to amounts, or discounting items in a sale, for example.
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Working with different interest models is an important skill when dealing with saving money. Use these activities to practice using both Compound and Simple Interest.
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Extending ideas from Compound Interest, can you calculate the total percentage change after two changes to a given amount?
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Finding the original amount from a reduced price is useful to see how much you are saving in a sale.
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