Calculating Percentages
Your child can find a percentage of an amount, like 15% of $40. They find 10% and 5% first, then add them together.
In curriculum terms
Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages of amounts (e.g. 15% of 360) and the use of percentages for comparison
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Try this together
If a jumper originally costs £40 and is 15% off, can your child work out how much the discount is and what the sale price would be?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise that 100% represents the complete whole and use percentages to describe, represent and compare relative size; connect familiar percentages to their decimal and fraction equivalents
solve problems that require finding a familiar fraction, decimal or percentage of a quantity, including percentage discounts, choosing efficient calculation strategies and using digital tools where appropriate
approximate numerical solutions to problems involving rational numbers and percentages, including financial contexts, using appropriate estimation strategies
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.