6th Grade Math Lessons on Percent, Part, and Whole

Boost your students' confidence with these guided notes that make percent relationships clear, organized, and easy to understand. This 6th Grade Finding Percent, Part & Whole Guided Notes resource gets students thinking about percents as more than following a formula and gives them lasting strategies for identifying parts and wholes in real-life situations.

Percent problems can be intimidating for many students, as they struggle to figure out what the question is asking them to solve. These notes break it down in a clear and organized way so that students can identify whether they need to find the percent, the part or the whole. It scaffolds the process so that students are able to recognize percent relationships and choose the correct approach.

The focus of this resource is on conceptual understanding as well as solving problems. Students are asked to represent relationships with numbers as well as with real-life situations and models involving percent discounts and totals.

The layout is clean and consistent - easy to follow! These notes are ready to print and are perfect for whole-group instruction, intervention, independent notes, or interactive notebooks.

What’s Included:

• 2 pages of Guided Notes with examples

• Guided Practice: 10 practice problems as students find the percent, part & whole

• Independent Practice: 20 practice problems with basic skills and real-life situations

• Answer Key: Perfect for making copies for students who need extra support or to use for grading

• Pro Tips to help students justify their reasoning and prevent common mistakes

Skills Covered:

✔ Finding a percent of a number

✔ Finding a whole given a part and percent

✔ Finding a percent given a part and whole

✔ Discovering and using part-whole-percent relationships

✔ Problem-solving with percents in real-life situations

✔ CCSS: 6.RP.A.3c-d

This resource is perfect for:

• Guided instruction

• Interactive notebooks

• Independent practice

• Homework

• Math intervention

• Test prep & review

• Small group instruction

• Sub plans

Teachers love how this helps students organize their thinking about percent applications and try to solve with less and guessing! Whether you have just started teaching applications of percents or need to review before getting into equations for percent problems, this resource is perfect for your class.

The answer key is included and perfect for making copies for students who need extra support.

Just print, teach, and watch your students become percent application masters!