Grade 5

What is percent?

percent

A way of saying how many out of every hundred.

For example

Half the class walking to school means 50 percent walk.

In Grade 5

Children shade hundred squares to see percent as parts out of every hundred.

Watch out for

Children often think 50 percent is always a large amount. Fifty percent of a small number is still small.

Say it at home

Look at a sale sign and ask what the percent off means in real money.

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