Exploring Percent, Fraction, and Decimal Concepts

This video tutorial for sixth graders covers the concepts of percents, fractions, and decimals. It explains what a percent is and how it relates to real-world examples like grades and sales. The tutorial demonstrates how to convert percents to fractions and decimals, including handling percents less than one and those over 100. It also covers converting decimals to percents and fractions to percents using various methods. The video emphasizes the equivalence of fractions and decimals and provides examples to illustrate these conversions.

What is a percent?

• A ratio of a number to 100

• A ratio of a number to 50

• A ratio of a number to 10

• A ratio of a number to 1000

How do you write 65% as a fraction?

• 65/50

• 65/10

• 65/100

• 65/1000

What is 65% as a decimal?

• 65.0

• 6.5

• 0.65

• 0.065

What is 303% as a decimal?

• 0.303

• 30.3

• 303.0

• 3.03

How do you convert 0.34 to a percent?

• Move the decimal one place to the right

• Move the decimal two places to the left

• Move the decimal two places to the right

• Move the decimal one place to the left

What is 0.34 as a percent?

• 3.4%

• 340%

• 0.34%

• 34%

What is 0.051 as a percent?

• 0.51%

• 0.051%

• 5.1%

• 51%

How do you convert a fraction to a percent using a proportion?

• Divide the fraction by 100

• Set the fraction equal to a ratio with a denominator of 100

• Add 100 to the fraction

• Multiply the fraction by 100

What is 4/25 as a percent?

• 40%

• 16%

• 25%

• 4%

What is 3/8 as a percent?

• 35%

• 30%

• 37.5%

• 40%