Percentages - Fractions to percentages - Planning

The Year 6 lesson on converting fractions to percentages aims to deepen students' understanding of the relationship between these two mathematical concepts. The key vocabulary for this lesson includes terms such as 'fraction', 'percentage', 'convert', 'equivalent', 'denominator', and 'numerator'. The lesson begins with a recap of previous learning, emphasizing that 'percent' means 'out of 100'. The first activity involves using a hundred square to visually demonstrate how shaded portions can be written as percentages, highlighting that the numerator of a fraction with a denominator of 100 directly represents the percentage. This visual representation helps students grasp that 100% corresponds to a whole.

Subsequent activities encourage partner discussions on how to convert fractions with denominators other than 100 into percentages by finding equivalent fractions with a denominator of 100 or by calculating the fraction of 100. Students are expected to memorize common fractions and their equivalent percentages. The lesson progresses with practice in converting various fractions to percentages and vice versa, through scaling up or down. Group work and independent activities with differentiated worksheets provide opportunities to apply these concepts. The lesson concludes with a reflection on the learning process, where students identify what they've learned, the skills they've used, and what they found challenging. The lesson differentiates for varying levels of understanding, with tasks ranging from converting simple fractions to dealing with more complex conversions and reasoning challenges.