Percentages

Understand per cent as parts per hundred and link to fractions and decimals.

Taught in Primary 5 in Nigeria (NERDC), Year 5 in United Kingdom (National Curriculum), Grade 6 in Canada (Ontario).

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Nigeria (NERDC)

Primary 5

Strand: Number and Numeration
Called: Percentages
How it's taught: Fractions written symbolically early; equivalent fractions and LCM-based methods with working shown in vertical form.

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United Kingdom (National Curriculum)

Year 5

Strand: Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Called: Percentages
How it's taught: Fraction bars, strips and number lines; 'simplest form' via common factors; decimals and percentages linked from Year 4 onward.

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Canada (Ontario)

Grade 6

Strand: Number
Called: Percentages
How it's taught: Heavy use of visual models (fraction strips, number lines, area models); Ontario says 'fourths'; equivalence and operations reasoned through models before symbols.

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Decimals: hundredths