Percentages of quantities with and without visual support - 6th Grade

Introducing percentages can be helped by approaching it with informal methods of calculation supported by a visual representation before moving onto the standard algorithms with word based problems at a laters stage

This is what this resource aims to do by using:
- the equivalence of 50%, 25% & 75% and their fractions 1/2, 1/4 & 3/4 

- the knowledge that 10% =1/10 and  1/10th of any multiple of 10 or 100 can easily be found by removing the last zero of the number. 

From here students can then move on to calculating:
- 5% of quantities (1/2 of 10%) or
- 1% (or multiples of 1%) of quantities, equivalent to 1/10th of a tenth.

The Worksheets and Teaching Resources are set at 5 levels

1.  10%, 25%, 50%, & 75%  of  multiples of 100 

2.  10%,20%,30% ........90%, of multiples of 10

3.  10%,20%,30% ........90% of multiples of 100

4.  5%,10%,15% ...... 95% of multiples of 10 

5.  Any percentage of multiples of 100 

Answers will always be whole numbers.

How many worksheets are in each set ?

Lots and lots. At the click of a button all numbers are randomised, so the questions change every time.  This will allow you to create as many new worksheets you will need for practice throughout the year (classwork, homework, revision, fillers etc) or even give small groups of students in your class different sets of questions either at the same level or differentiated .

Note
These resources are PDF documents and work with the official  Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows or Mac computers with the randomising buttons also working via a touchscreen (PC or Mac)or on an Interactive Whiteboard.

Common Core Standard partly covered

CCSS6.RP.A.3c

Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity ....

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills   MA.6.4.F partly covered
The student is expected to: represent benchmark fractions and percents such as 1%, 10%, 25%, 33 1/3%, and multiples of these values using 10 by 10 grids, strip diagrams, number lines, and numbers;