LO:To connect equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.

Know:

• What fractions represent.

• What decimal values represent.

• What percentage values represent.

Understand:

• That percentages, decimals and fractions can be used to represent a similar amount.

Do:

• I can connect equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages and convert between the different values.

Essential Questions:

• What is a percentage?

• Why is a percentage always out of 100?

A percentage is a number which is a fraction that is out of 100.

The word percent originates from Latin for per centum which means per 100.

Any number can be turned into a percentage if given the quantity that it is out of.

A percentage is part of a whole.

Connecting Fractions, Decimals and Percentages