Y5

Maths

Understand Percentages Discussion Problem

Worksheet
Group work
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Challenge your children with this Year 5 Understand Percentages Discussion Problem.

With two problem-solving questions to work through, children are required to apply their knowledge and understanding of percentages in different ways to help them solve the problems.

An answer page is provided to support teaching staff with marking and encourage self and peer marking where appropriate. This resource is ideal for paired or small group work.


Curriculum Objectives

  • Count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten
  • Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths
  • Recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per hundred’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal