Percentage Increase and Decrease Reasoning and Problem Solving

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Build understanding of how to increase or decrease an amount by a percentage by using this resource.

This Year 6 Percentage Increase and Decrease Reasoning and Problem Solving worksheet will support children with using their prior learning of finding 10% or 5% of an amount (and associated multiples) to increase or decrease that amount by that percentage. Children will reason if a child has increased or decreased an amount by a percentage correctly, solve a real-life problem involving shops reducing or increasing prices and investigate the growth of a puppy and a plant. All answers are supplied to help with marking!

A varied fluency resource is also available for this small step.


Curriculum Objectives

  • Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages [for example, of measures, and such as 15% of 360] and the use of percentages for comparison

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Spring

6R2

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages