Percent Match

How to play

1. Read the question.
2. Change the value into the form asked for, or work out the percentage.
3. Tap the answer.

Choose Relaxed for ten questions with no clock, or Race to answer as many as you can in sixty seconds. After a wrong answer the game shows the right one and the reason. At the end it lists the questions you missed and keeps your best score for each level on this device.

Levels

• Level 1: Percentages as fractions and decimals
• Level 2: Percentage of a number
• Level 3: Any form to any form

Start at the level where about eight answers in ten are right, and move up when it feels easy.

What this game practises

Fractions, decimals and percentages are three ways of writing the same numbers, and moving easily among them is the key to this whole area. Half, 0.5 and 50% should feel like one thing. Knowing the common ones by heart makes discounts, marks, interest and data handling far lighter work.

Tips for parents and teachers

• Learn the anchors first: 50%, 25%, 10% and 1%. Most others can be built from these.
• For 15% of a number, find 10% and add half of it.
• Remember that per cent means "out of a hundred".

Play it without a screen

Look for percentages in newspaper advertisements and on packets. Ask what fraction that is, and what the saving would be on ₹200.

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