By the end of this unit, students will:
- define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’;
- learn what percentages represent and how to write a percentage as a fraction or decimal;
- understand that 50% is the same as 50/100 or 0.5.
Curriculum Alignment: Key Stage 3: Number
- define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’, interpret percentages and percentage changes as a fraction or a decimal, interpret these multiplicatively, express 1 quantity as a percentage of another, compare 2 quantities using percentages, and work with percentages greater than 100%.
