Converting Fractions to Percentages

By the end of this unit, students will:

1. convert a fraction to a percentage by using fraction equivalence with 100 as the denominator;
2. convert a fraction to a percentage by writing one quantity as a percentage of the other;
3. apply these skills to solve real-world problems.

Curriculum Alignment: Key Stage 3: Number

• work interchangeably with terminating decimals and their corresponding fractions (such as 3.5 and  or 0.375 and  )
• 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%
• interpret fractions and percentages as operators