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Content description VC2M5N04

Mathematics Version 2.0 / Level 5 / Number
Content description
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
Elaborations
  1. recognising applications of percentages used in everyday contexts, for example, the bar model used for charging devices indicating the percentage of power remaining, and advertising in retail contexts relating to discounts or sales
  2. creating a model by subdividing a whole (for example, using 10 × 10 grids to represent various percentage amounts) and recognising complementary percentages (such as 30% and 70%) combine to make 100%
  3. creating a model by subdividing a collection of materials, such as blocks or money, to connect decimals and percentage equivalents of tenths and the commonly used fractions 12, 14 and 34; for example, connecting that one-tenth or 0.1 represents 10% and one-half or 0.5 represents 50%, and recognising that 60% of a whole is 10% more of the whole than 50%
  4. using physical and virtual materials to represent the relationship between decimal notation and percentages, for example, 0.3 is 3 out of every 10, which is 30 out of every 100, which is 30%
Code
VC2M5N04
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