Calculating Percentages - Activities & Puzzles

This pack contains three activities to support students learning to calculate a percentage of an amount:

1. Percentages Mystery Grids
Students have to use a set of clues to work out the mystery numbers in the grid. For example, 'The number in the top left is 20% of the number in the bottom right'. There are 3 levels of difficulty.

2. Percentages Grid Puzzles
In these activities students must work out the missing numbers in a series of percentage statements. Sometimes they have to work out the missing percentage, as well as the result of the calculation.

3. Starter Cards / Exit Slips
A set of cards that could be used as a lesson starter, or an exit slip to see how well students have understood. They can be printed double sided, so that students have their own answers on the back of their card. Alternatively the answers are provided for you to project onto the board. Each page contains 8 cards.

4. Who's Born When Puzzle
Students must use the clues to work out how many children were born in each month of the year. This puzzle requires some logic and the ability to calculate simple fractions and percentages of an amount.