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Percentages: understanding, converting and calculating

This guide provides a sequence of small steps for understanding and using percentages, from understanding percentage in terms of quantity and how it relates to fractions and decimals, through to calculating the percentage of an amount.

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Year level(s)	Year 5, Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Explicit teaching
Keywords	bar model, hundred square, reasoning, problem-solving, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding
Topics	Percentage, Decimals, Fractions, Multiplication and division
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M5N04 Recognise that 100% represents the complete whole and use percentages to describe, represent and compare relative size; connect familiar percentages to their decimal and fraction equivalents AC9M6N09 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems, involving rational numbers and percentages, including in financial contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies, and using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, justifying the choices made
Numeracy progression	Interpreting fractions (P6) Number and place value (P8) Proportional thinking (P1) Additive strategies (P9) Multiplicative strategies (P8) Understanding money (P8)
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