Percentages

Identify the whole in a percentage, convert between representations and calculate discounts, tax and simple interest.

  • MOE teaching syllabus · Primary 5 Mathematics (taught from 2025)
  • 2 lessons

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Percentages and parts of a whole

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Identify the whole in a percentage, convert between representations and calculate discounts, tax and simple interest.

Learning goals
  • Express a part as a percentage of its whole
  • Write a percentage as a simplest fraction
  • Write a fraction as a percentage
  • Write a percentage as a decimal
  • Write a decimal as a percentage
  • Calculate a percentage part of a whole
  • Calculate a discount and the sale price
  • Calculate a stated percentage tax and the total price
  • Calculate one year's simple interest and balance
Syllabus statements covered
  • Expressing a part of a whole as a percentage
  • Use of %
  • Finding a percentage part of a whole
  • Finding discount, GST and annual interest

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