Drive the bar to , then work out the same amount as a percentage.
This engine’s own main skill is Converting Fractions to Percentages. It practises convert decimal and percentage alongside it.
shades 3 of the 8 pieces of the bar. Dividing 3 by 8 gives exactly 0.375, and "per cent" just means "out of a hundred", so multiplying by 100 gives 37.5%. The three lanes stop at the same place on the board because they are not three amounts: they are one amount written three ways. Nothing was rounded anywhere - 3 divided by 8 stops dead after three decimal places.
Step 1. Line them up. Drag any lane. Land all three on and watch the other two follow.
Step 2. Under the flap. Two lanes are covered. is what percentage?
What to say if they get stuck
Drag any lane and all three move together - they are one amount wearing three names.
means the whole is cut into 8 equal pieces and you take 3.
Per cent means "out of a hundred". Fill the hundred square and count the cells.
Drops or adds the percent sign without scaling by one hundred.
This is the wrong answer 11+ papers are built to offer, so it is worth watching for directly: a child who does this will look confident and still lose the mark. If it keeps happening on convert decimal and percentage, the fix is the misunderstanding rather than more questions.
Where convert decimal and percentage sits in the 11+
The 11+ does not test these skills in isolation, and practising one in the wrong order wastes the practice. These are the skills the curriculum map connects this one to.
Symbolic equivalence transfers to number-line placement.
How convert decimal and percentage differs from the skills beside it
The same exercise practises several skills, and telling them apart is often the difficulty rather than the exercise itself. On this page the skill is: convert one decimal to or from a percentage, and it stops where excludes finding a percentage of a quantity.
Questions parents ask about convert decimal and percentage
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
Convert one decimal to or from a percentage. It is one of 55 named maths skills in the 11+, in the fractions, decimals and percentages strand, and this page carries 1 interactive exercise that practises it.
The skill map puts convert fraction and decimal first. Decimal equivalence supports percentage conversion. If convert decimal and percentage keeps going wrong, that is the thing to check before doing more of this one.
There is a specific mistake recorded against this skill: drops or adds the percent sign without scaling by one hundred. 11+ papers are written to offer exactly that answer, so a child can be confident and still lose the mark. When it keeps happening, the fix is the misunderstanding rather than more questions.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. A percentage counts hundredths, so ask how many hundredths are in 0.15 before you write the % sign.
The skill map draws the line here: Excludes finding a percentage of a quantity. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The skill map connects it to locate an equivalent value. Symbolic equivalence transfers to number-line placement. That skill has its own page here.
Use Triple Track, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to convert decimal and percentage, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
Convert decimal and percentage rests on something else being secure first
This skill depends on convert fraction and decimal. A free diagnostic checks those alongside every other maths skill, so you find out whether the problem is here or underneath it.
