Fractions and Percentages

Summary
Activity A deals with changing percentages into fractions and simplifying the fractions.

Objectives
• The children will understand and demonstrate the methods used to convert fractions to percentages and vice versa.

Suggested Grades
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Writing a percentage as a fraction is quite easy, isn?t it? What about writing a fraction as a percentage? There are a number of ways to do this, the easiest way is to divide 100 by the denominator of the fraction you want to show as a percentage. This is how you find the percent of ?: 100 ? 2 = 50%. Shall we do a couple more?

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