Understand and Use Percent

In this topic, students will:

• represent the percent of a whole

• find the percent of a whole

• write equivalent values as fractions, decimals, and percents

• write fractions as decimals and percents when the denominator of the fraction is not 100

• write percents that are greater than 100

• write percents that are less than 1

• estimate the percent of a number

• use the decimal form of a percent to find the percent of a number

• write an equation to solve a percent problem

• find the whole amount when given a part and the percent

Vocabulary:

Percent - a rate in which the first term is compared to 100. The percent is the number of hundredths, that represents the part of the whole.