Ratios and Proportional Reasoning · Proportional Reasoning

Percentages as Proportions

Connecting fractions and decimals to the concept of percent as a rate per one hundred.

Key Questions

  1. 1Why is 100 used as the standard denominator for percentages?
  2. 2How can we use a benchmark percentage like ten percent to calculate more complex values?
  3. 3When is expressing a value as a percentage more misleading than using a raw number?

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

ON: Number - Grade 6
Grade: Grade 6
Subject: Mathematics
Unit: Ratios and Proportional Reasoning
Period: Proportional Reasoning

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