Dienes Blocks and Percentages

A set of tasks using Dienes blocks to make connections with percentages.

I used it as a handout for the pupils. On reflection it might work better with the “information” bits being used as teacher notes then pupils trying the tasks in their jotters. The “information” could be used as teacher led examples on the whiteboard using the mathbot website while the pupils working through the tasks with the manipulatives and whiteboards to get the answers.

I worried too much about pupils recording their answers and methods which got in the way of them actually using the manipulatives. I’d recommend just leaving the pupils to use the blocks to get their answers and build an understanding first and then firm up the formal layout in later lessons.

I’ve included the resource as a PDF and a Word doc which you can edit as you see fit.