Playground percentages

Design site plans for a school. Assign regions on a 10 by 10 grid for different uses such as a playground, canteen, car park or lawn. Calculate the percentage of the total site used for each region.

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Year level(s) Year 5
Audience Student
Purpose Student task, Home practice tasks
Format Interactive
Keywords games

Curriculum alignment

Strand and focus Number
Topics Percentage
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

Numeracy progression Interpreting fractions (P6)
Number and place value (P8)
Proportional thinking (P1)

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