Use What You Know

Content Name

Use What You Know

Content Type

Partner Content

Description

Use What You Know is a companion activity to Magic 10% in that it involves children finding one percentage of an amount then using that percentage to help calculate a different percentage. Unlike Magic 10% it often involves using fractions other than 1/10 as the starting point for the activity.

Curriculum

• Country

  England

  Key Stage:

  Key Stage 2

  Years:

  Year 5, Year 6

  Subjects:

  • Mathematics

  Topics:

  • Number - fractions (including decimals and percentages)
  • Number - Fractions (including decimals and percentages)

  Programmes of Study:

  • recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages, including in different contexts
  • recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per 100’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal fraction

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