Decimals and Percentages - Understand Percentages - Worksheet

The 'Understand Percentages' worksheets are designed to help children grasp the concept of percentages as parts out of 100. Using a hundred square and bar models as visual aids, students learn to identify and shade in specific percentages. The bar models are divided into ten equal parts, with each part representing 10%, allowing students to visually see and understand what a given percentage looks like. The worksheets provide various exercises, including shading in a given percentage of a diagram and identifying the percentage shaded in provided pictorial representations. These tasks are aimed at enhancing the students' fluency and precision in dealing with percentages.

Further exercises on the worksheets challenge students to solve reasoning and problem-solving questions related to percentages. For instance, they may be asked to determine what percentage of a bar model is shaded or to calculate the percentage of seats occupied on a plane. Students also practice converting parts per hundred into percentage form and vice versa. The worksheets cover a range of scenarios, from shading parts of a hundred square to working out the remaining percentage of sweets in a jar after a certain number have been removed. These activities are designed to deepen the understanding of percentages and their practical applications in everyday contexts.