Title: Percentage
Learning Targets
Beginning
To be able to demonstrate how to find any percentages of a quantity by using decimals.
What is 5% as a decimal? How can I use this to find 5% of 455?
Developing
To be able to use a percentage increases and decreases.
A coat which costs £35 is reduced by 12.5% in a sale - how much do you now pay?
Mastering
Mastering
To be able to calculate a percentage increases and decreases.
A coat which costs £35 is reduced to £25 in a sale - what is this percentage change?
To know how to calculate compound interest and investigate how it differs to simple interest.
I invest £1200 for 3 years at an interest rate of 3.5% - how much money do I have after 3 years?
Resources
Beginning
Developing
Mastering
Calculating percentage changes
Introduce students to the idea of percentage change
Compound Percentages
MEP 11.8, page 23
Homework
Complete 10 questions (including workings) for page 3 of this worksheet.
You can check your answers on the last page but you must show how you arrived at your answer.
Upload your completed work as a photo to showbie.
Percentage Change - Ten Ticks 6, 3*
