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Posted by Peter on 2nd November 2011
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Bonfire night maths worksheet: percentages

Thanks to urbrainy.com for letting me publish this page. There are more bonfire night pages on their site, which you can trial free of charge at urbrainy.com It’s always nice to have something topical to use as part of the maths curriculum. Here we have a page on percentages, linked to the theme of bonfire [...]

Posted by Peter on 15th February 2011
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Percentage worksheet for Year 5

Here is the second of our percentages worksheets for Year 5. It is typical of the English that we manage to write per cent in two different ways. Unlike the Americans who use percent we use two words per cent, apart from when we write percentage when we put it altogether. Anyway, as to the [...]

Posted by Peter on 25th March 2010
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Year 5 maths worksheet: Percentages

A straightforward introduction to finding 10% off multiples of 10p up to a pound. This can be done in two stages: Firstly: find 10% of the total. As these are all multiples of ten this is straightforward – just divide the amount by 10. eg 10% of 50p is 5p Secondly: subtract from the original [...]

Posted by Peter on 9th February 2010
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Year 6 Maths Worksheet: Percentages and Fractions

This worksheet looks at the relationship between fractions, decimal fractions and percentages. This often proves very tricky for many children who fail to grasp that because percentage means ‘out of 100′ it can also be represented as a fraction. Children should begin to understand that 23% also means 23/100 or 0.23. later, when trying to [...]