Drive the bar to , then work out the same amount as a percentage.
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.
Where convert fraction and decimal 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.
How convert fraction and decimal 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 familiar fraction to or from a decimal, and it stops where excludes percentage conversion.
Questions parents ask about convert fraction and decimal
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 familiar fraction to or from a decimal. 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 recognise equivalent fractions first. Equivalent partitioning supports familiar fraction and decimal conversion. If convert fraction and decimal keeps going wrong, that is the thing to check before doing more of this one.
The digits of the fraction are not the digits of the decimal. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. A fraction is a division: work out 9 divided by 20 and keep track of where the decimal point lands.
The skill map draws the line here: Excludes percentage conversion. 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 fractions, decimals and percentages strand holds 9 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to convert fraction and decimal are convert fraction and percentage, find a fraction of a quantity and find a percentage of a quantity. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.
Use Triple Track, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to convert fraction and decimal, 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 fraction and decimal rests on something else being secure first
This skill depends on recognise equivalent fractions. A free diagnostic checks those alongside every other maths skill, so you find out whether the problem is here or underneath it.
