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Understanding Percentages and Symbols

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Understanding Percentages and Symbols

Percentage symbols and visual representations

🎯 WALT: We Are Learning To recognise the % symbol and understand that 100% = the whole amount

Success Criteria: I can identify the % symbol and explain what 100% means

1. What does this symbol mean? %

Dollars

Percent

Plus

2. If you have a whole pizza, what percentage do you have?

50%

75%

100%

3. Circle the percentage symbols you can find:

25% of students like maths $ 50% enjoy reading % 75 people came to the show 90% passed the test

4. Fill in the blanks:

The symbol _____ means percent. When we have the whole amount, we have _____% .

📊 Part 2: Understanding Percentages as Parts of a Whole

5. If a chocolate bar has 10 pieces and you eat 5 pieces, what percentage have you eaten?

25%

50%

75%

6. Match the percentages to their meanings:

100% means _____________ of something

50% means _____________ of something

25% means _____________ of something

Word bank: all, half, one quarter

7. In your class of 8 students, if 4 students have brown hair, what percentage have brown hair?
8. Explain in your own words what 100% means:

🧮 Part 3: Simple Percentage Problems

9. A bag contains 20 lollies. If you eat 25% of them, how many lollies did you eat?
10. Look at this sentence: "90% of Year 5 students enjoy sport."

This means:

9 out of every 10 students enjoy sport

Only 9 students in the whole school enjoy sport

90 students enjoy sport

11. If 100% of your homework is 10 questions, how many questions is 50% of your homework?

Answer: _____ questions

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