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Playground percentages

Playground percentages

TLF ID L133

Help a town planner to design two site plans for a school. Assign regions on a 10x10 grid for different uses such as a playground, canteen, car park or lawn. Calculate the percentage of the total site used for each region. Use a number line to display fractions and equivalent fractions.

Tags: Perfect introduction to percentages - 6s and 7s
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Educational details

Educational value
  • Presents a mapping task that focuses the student's attention on the relationship between fractions and percentages.
  • Illustrates that percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100.
  • Demonstrates how percentages can be expressed as fractions on a number line.
  • Provides an option to print two worksheets that capture the student's design for the site plan: one with the provided percentages and the other with the student's allocation.
Year level

5; 6

Topics Calculators Number operations Area Arrays Design Proportions Simple fractions Number lines Grids Percentages Decimals Equivalent fractions Mental arithmetic Mathematical expressions Justification (Reasoning)
Learning area
  • Mathematics

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: University of Western Sydney
  • Organization: University of Western Sydney
  • Description: Subject matter expert
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.uws.edu.au/
  • Name: CADRE Design
  • Organization: CADRE Design
  • Description: Technical implementer
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.cadre.com.au/
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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  • Colour independence
  • Device independence
  • Hearing independence
  • Generic
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2016, except where indicated under Acknowledgements. This material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU) licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/.