Percentages - Understanding Percentages - Starter

The Spring Term for Year 6 students includes a series of starters focused on enhancing their understanding of percentages and revising various mathematical concepts. In one of the exercises, students are tasked with solving addition problems, such as adding 5,197 to 926, and combining numbers in different forms, like adding six ones to eighty-five hundreds, nine tens, six hundreds, and seven ones. The aim is to foster fluency in basic arithmetic operations and to ensure that students are comfortable with handling large numbers and different numerical representations.

Another part of the revision involves matching fractions to their equivalent decimal forms and arranging a given set of decimals in ascending order to reinforce their understanding of the relationship between fractions and decimals. Additionally, students use bar models to compare fractions, a visual method that aids in grasping the concept of fraction sizes relative to each other. These exercises are designed to build a strong foundation in mathematical reasoning and to prepare students for more complex problem-solving involving percentages and other numerical relationships.