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Percentage Of An Amount Worksheet
Help your students prepare for their Maths GCSE with this free percentage of an amount worksheet of 44 questions and answers
- Section 1 of the percentage of an amount worksheet contains 36 skills-based percentage of an amount questions, in 3 groups to support differentiation
- Section 2 contains 4 applied percentage of an amount questions with a mix of word problems and deeper problem solving questions
- Section 3 contains 4 foundation and higher level GCSE exam style percentage of an amount questions
- Answer sheets and a mark scheme for all percentage of an amount questions are provided
- Questions follow variation theory with plenty of opportunities for students to work independently and solve problems at their own level
- All questions created by fully qualified expert secondary maths teachers
Suitable for GCSE maths revision for AQA, OCR and Edexcel exam boards
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Percentage of an amount at a glance
A percentage is an amount expressed as a fraction with a denominator of 100. For example 45% means ‘45 out of 100’, 45 hundredths or 45 over 100. In decimal form, we write 0.45. A percentage does not always have to be a whole number.
There are some simple percentages of amounts that students should be able to calculate mentally, such as 50% (half), 25% (quarter) and 10% (divide by 10). Finding multiples of these amounts, such as 20%, 30% etc. along with bar modelling can be useful to support percentage calculations.
When finding percentages of amounts using a calculator, students should be encouraged to use the decimal equivalent and convert to a decimal multiplication – for example, to find 18% of a given number, multiply by 0.18. Developing this skill is particularly useful when extending to reverse percentage problems, where students can find the original amount by using the inverse operation – so dividing by the percentage decimal equivalent.
Looking forward, students can then progress to additional number worksheets, for example a fractions of amounts worksheet or a rounding worksheet. There are plenty of additional percentage problems worksheets, including percentage increase and decrease, and compound interest.
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