Year 8 · Maths · beta
Understanding multiplicative relationships: percentages and proportionality
In this unit pupils explore multiplicative relationships with percentages, direct and inverse proportion.
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Prior knowledge
- Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages
- Understand ratio and scaling
- Solve problems involving direct proportion
Source curriculum references
- Define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’, interpret percentages and percentage changes as a fraction or a decimal, interpret these multiplicatively, express 1 quantity as a percentage of another, compare 2 quantities using percentages, and work with percentages greater than 100%
- Interpret fractions and percentages as operators
- Solve problems involving percentage change, including: percentage increase, decrease and original value problems and simple interest in financial mathematics
- Solve problems involving direct and inverse proportion, including graphical and algebraic representations
- Use compound units such as speed, unit pricing and density to solve problems
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