Primary maths: Percentages

Classroom activities, lesson ideas and games to help your KS2 classes get to grips with percentages

Tes Resources Team

Multiple Percentage Signs To Illustrate Percentages Lessons For Primary Maths Classrooms

Perfect young learners' percentage skills with help from this hand-picked collection of stimulating activities

However familiar pupils are with seeing percentage signs in the sales, getting to grips with parts of numbers and how to talk about them can be a daunting prospect. Even more so, when understanding percentages turns into finding percentages of different amounts. So, why not see if the Tes community have already created something to make the process a little easier?

KS2 Maths (Percentages)
Maths4Everyone

KS2 Maths (Percentages)

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These topic-focused SATs questions at the end of a unit will help to test and extend students' understanding as well as helping them to prepare for SATs next year. These questions have **fully-worked solutions** which can be displayed on a whiteboard making feedback with students more efficient. Cli...
Fraction, Decimal & Percentage | Matching Activity
LittleStreams

Fraction, Decimal & Percentage | Matching Activity

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This fraction, decimal and percentage matching puzzle is a fun way to test students ability convert between fractions, decimals and percentages. It contains 32 puzzles including all base fractions up to nine-tenths, and also includes a bonus ten-tenths to test understanding of a whole. It is desig...
Percentages Revision Worksheets
FullShelf

Percentages Revision Worksheets

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Percentages activities (puzzles worksheets) for Upper Key Stage 2 (KS2) and early KS3 Maths, especially Year 6 and Year 7, for early finishers challenges, starter tasks, revision and homework. **6 Hidden Word Mistakes puzzles** for finding percents of amounts / quantities, decimal and fraction equiv...
Simple percentages using percentage bubbles
loz_dunn

Simple percentages using percentage bubbles

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A tool for students to work out some simple percentages. The bonus questions test to see if they can combine more of the bubbles to generate new answers. The star questions ask students to calculate percentages that you can't generate as easily from the bubble.
Percentages of Amounts
Mrs McL Teaches

Percentages of Amounts

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This powerpoint teaches learners how to calculate simple and then more complex percentages of amounts. It contains finisher questions for both which can be used as a means of formative assessment. It also contains a set of three questions sets which are differentiated by stars to challenge all lear...
Percentage of an amount
danwalker

Percentage of an amount

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A complete lesson on finding percentages of an amount using non-calculator methods. Looks at finding 50%, 25%, 75%, 10%, 5%, 20% and 1%. Activities included: Starter: A set of questions where pupils convert the percentages above into their simplified, fraction form. Main: * Some examples and qui...
Percentage of amount maze
danwalker

Percentage of amount maze

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Maze consists of squares containing questions with answers, some of which are wrong. Pupils are only allowed to pass through squares containing correct answers. Extension - pupils design their own maze. I like to discuss how to make the maze harder by including classic misconceptions like divide by ...
Decimals, Percentages & Fractions Target Boards
PropellerEducation

Decimals, Percentages & Fractions Target Boards

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Set of 3 target boards with questions that can be used as whole class starter activities, or for groups of students to work their way through to master **Fractions**, **Decimals** and **Percentages** and how they might relate to each other. Questions ask students to order, convert, multiply, compa...
Percentage of Amounts Differentiated Worksheet with Answers
MsMMaths

Percentage of Amounts Differentiated Worksheet with Answers

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Suitable for both Key stage 3 and 4. This worksheet is designed to help pupils revise percentages of amounts. The worksheet is fully differentiated (mild, medium spicy, hot and challenge) allowing pupils to work at different levels simultaneously. The challenge section asks pupils to apply their kno...