Percentage as a part of the whole
Learning objectives
You will discover the notion of the percentage.
Learning effect
You write the percentage as a part of the whole.
You convert the percentages to the fractions and the fractions to the percentages.
You use English to describe the notion of the percentage.
Prepare for the lesson:
some labels/containers of the food products or cosmetics including the percentagepercentage share of these products,
20 squared cards of identical size,
the piece of paper presented below:
The number of the students in the class | |
The number of girls in the class | |
The number of the boys in the class | |
The number of students wearing glasses |
Analyse the labels/containers you have prepared and answer the following question:
What does the symbol of % written on the labels/containers mean?
What information can be recorded by using that symbol?
Notice, that:
the symbol of % means the percentagepercentage,
the percentagepercentage is used to specify the composition of the food products or cosmetics.
The word “percentagepercentage” comes from the Latin expression “pro centrum”, which is translated as „per hundred”.
Therefore the percent is the one hundredthone hundredth of the wholewhole.
Today you are going to find out how to write the percentagepercentage in a form of the fractions. First, answer the following questions:
What do the expression „I will do it for the hundred percent”, “I understand it for the hundred percent” mean? What does the expression “fifty fifty” mean?
Compare your answers to the information below:
One hundred percent is the wholewhole, and fifty percent is the half of the certain amount.
If we mark this amount as a, we can write as following: what can be written as: .
Write the following percentages in a form of the common and decimal fractions:
1%
10%
25%
75%
Use the labels/containers you have prepared for the lesson.
a) Put the values of the percentage composition of the products on the label/container in the ascending order.
b) Convert the percentages on the labels/containers in the common and decimal fractions.
Discuss the method of converting the fractions in the percentage.
Notice, that:
We convert the fraction to the percentage by multiplying it by 100%.
Use the drawings below to complete the following task.
What part of the figure was shaded?
Write the answer in a form of the common fractioncommon fraction.
Use the squared cards you have prepared for the lesson.
Make the memory gamememory game on your own. On one card write the percentage, on the other the relevant fraction. Repeat the activity to get 10 pairs of cards.
Mix the memory cards and put them upside down in the front of you. Start the game. Try to find all the pairs.
Think of the students of your class .Complete the table and answer the following question:
The number of the students in the class | |
The number of present students | |
The number of girls in the class | |
The number of the boys in the class | |
The number of students wearing glasses |
What fraction of the students are there present students? What is the percent of the students?
What fraction of the students are there the girls? What is the percent of the students?
What percentage of the students is represented by the boys?
What percentage of the students doesn’t wear glasses?
What percentage of the students is represented by the boys?
An extra task:
Conduct a survey among your 20 friends on any topic you like. The results of the survey present in the table using the percentages.
Remember:
One percent of the certain amount is the one hundredthone hundredth of it, what is written as the following: .
Converting the percent in the fraction we divide the fraction by 100%.
Converting the fraction in the percentage we multiply the fraction by 100%.
Exercises
Determine which sentences are true.
- 0,2 of certain amount is more than 21% of this amount.
- 35% of certain weight is more than 0,34 of this weight.
- 40% of certain sum is less than of this sum.
- of certain weight to 25% of this weight.
- 60% of certain volume is more than 0,6 of this volume.
The pie chart presents the percentage share of the continents in the total area of the land.

Answer the following questions depending on the chart:
Which continent has the largest area?
What percentage of the total area of the land is the area of Europe?
Which continents are smaller than North America?
Are the area of both Americas larger than the area of Asia?
Is the area of Asia more than 1/3 of total area of land?
The drawing below presents the containers filled with water.

a) Use the common fraction to write what part of these containers was filled with water.
b) Use the percentages to write what part of these containers was filled with water.
c) Describe the method of converting the common fraction to the percentage in English.
Indicate which pairs of expressions or words are translated correctly.
- procent - percentage
- ułamek zwykły - common fraction
- ułamek dziesiętny - decimal fraction
- jedna setna - one hundredth
- całość - conversion
- zamiana - division
- decimal fraction
- one hundredth
- percentage
- jedna setna
- ułamek dziesiętny
- całość
- common fraction
- whole
- ułamek zwykły
- procent
Glossary
ułamek właściwy
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wymowa w języku angielskim: common fraction
zamiana
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wymowa w języku angielskim: conversion
ułamek dziesiętny
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wymowa w języku angielskim: decimal fraction
dzielenie
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wymowa w języku angielskim: division
gra memory
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wymowa w języku angielskim: memory game
mnożenie
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wymowa w języku angielskim: multiplication
jedna setna
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wymowa w języku angielskim: one hundredth
procent
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wymowa w języku angielskim: percentage
jaką część stanowi
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wymowa w języku angielskim: what is the part of
całość
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wymowa w języku angielskim: whole
Keywords
common fractioncommon fraction
decimal fractiondecimal fraction
one hundredthone hundredth
percentagepercentage
wholewhole