Introduction to Percentages
Per cent means "out of 100", and how that links to fractions.
What this lesson covers
Introduction to Percentages is a 8-part Class 4 Mathematics lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
Per cent means out of 100. The symbol is %. So 25% means 25 out of every 100. You can write it as the fraction 25/100.
The 8 parts
- Out of a hundred
- The percentages worth knowing
- Percentages of a shape
- Finding a percentage of an amount
- Percentages every day
- Where marks go
- What to remember
- Watch one worked through
Practise Introduction to Percentages
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